Dag Herbjørnsrud, Date of Birth

Dag Herbjørnsrud

Global historian of ideas

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1971

Profession: historian, contributing editor, journalist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Dag Herbjørnsrud (b.
1971) is a historian of ideas, author, Aeon writer, and founder of Center for Global and Comparative History of Ideas (Senter for global og komparativ idéhistorie, SGOKI) in Oslo.
In the Norwegian book "Global Knowledge" (Globalkunnskap, 2016) and in an essay on the blog of the Journal of the History of Ideas (JHI) he argues for the need of a "global history of ideas".
In May 2019, he published "Beyond decolonizing: global intellectual history and reconstruction of a comparative method" in the journal Global Intellectual History.
In the article, he proposes a global comparative method based on the three concepts of "context, connection, and comparison."Herbjørnsrud was the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian weekly left-wing news magazine Ny Tid from 2005 to 2015, formerly a reporter for the conservative newspaper Aftenposten.
As an editor of Ny Tid, Herbjørnsrud contributed to the making of the TV and Netflix thriller Occupied (2015), in which he ("editor Dag") was played by the actor Øystein Røger.
He is the son of writer Hans Herbjørnsrud and historian Anna Tranberg.Herbjørnsrud is a cand.
philol.
of history of ideas on an English-language thesis on Robert Nozick.
In an interview with the liberal-conservative periodical Minerva, Herbjørnsrud stated that Nozick advocated the welfare state, and that Anarchy, State, and Utopia is not representative for Nozick's writings.
He is a former political columnist for Al-Jazeera's English website.