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Rune Slagstad is a Norwegian philosopher, historian, legal theorist, and professor born on the 22nd of February 1945 in Bergen. He is known for his books on constitutional theory, legal irony, and sports history, his twenty-five-year editorship of Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, and for being named Norway's leading intellectual by Dagbladet in 2005.
Slagstad was one of the founders of the Norwegian Socialist Left Party, established in 1975. He held several leading positions in the party through the 1970s.
Among his significant publications are De nasjonale strateger (National Strategists), Rettens ironi (The Irony of Law), Sporten (a cultural-historical study of sports), and Constitutionalism and Democracy, co-edited with Jon Elster.
Slagstad received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 1996, a prize associated with freedom of expression in Norway. That same year he also joined the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.
Slagstad served as editor-in-chief of Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift from 1984 through 2009, a period of twenty-five years.
Slagstad is working on a study of Scandinavian social-democratic sittlichkeit at the Institute for Social Research. Sittlichkeit is a philosophical term for the ethical life embedded in shared social institutions.