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Norwegian sociologist, philosopher and musicologist
Dag Østerberg
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Born
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1938-11-09
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9 November 1938
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Died
| 22 February 2017
(2017-02-22)
(aged 78)
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Occupation(s)
| Sociologist, philosopher and musicologist
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Employer
| University of Oslo
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Parent
| Erling Østerberg
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Dag Østerberg
(9 November
1938
– 22 February
2017
) was a Norwegian sociologist, philosopher and musicologist.
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He was born in
Trondheim
to police officer
Erling Østerberg
and Jørgine Sofie Kleven. He was a central contributor to the so-called
positivism
debate in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1981 to 1991 he was appointed professor in sociology at the
University of Oslo
. Among his works are
Metasosiologisk Essay
from 1963,
Makt og materiell
from 1971, and a biography of
Jean-Paul Sartre
from 1993.
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[3]
His 1966 work
Forstaelsesformer. Et filosofisk bidrag
(Forms of Understanding: A Philosophical Contribution) was selected for the
Norwegian Sociology Canon
in 2009?2011.
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