The Circumstance;: The Academic Dept.

Dissent! Refracted: Histories, Aesthetics, and Cultures of Dissent (Peter Lang, 2016)

Ben Dorfman: Refractions: Dissent and Memory – Barbara J. Falk: The History, Paradoxes, and Utility of Dissent: From State to Global Action – Barbara Martin: History as Dissent: Independent Historians in the Late Soviet Era and Post-Soviet Russia: From «Pamiat» to «Memorial» – Bent Sørensen: Dissent as Race War: The Strange Case of Amiri Baraka – Hasmet M. Uluorta: The Tea Party: An Ethical All-American Performance – Stephanie Sapiie: Intellectual Identity and Student Dissent in Indonesia in the 1970s – Janina Gosseye/John Macarthur: Angry Young Architects: Counterculture and the Critique of Modernism in Brisbane, 1967-1972 – Verita Sriratana: «But That is Perhaps Why I Can Talk of Where I Want to be Without Always Being Dragged Back to My Starting Point»: Rethinking and Re(-)Membering Czech and Slovak Histories of Violence and Dissidence through the Historical «Infranovel» – Ben Dorfman: Intellectuals and Dissent: Dennis Rodman, Memory Refractor – Kalle Pihlainen: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Post-1968 Ethic of Anti-Representationalism.

"Review of The Sacredness of the Person : A New Genealogy of Human Rights by Hans Joas"
European Journal of Political and Cultural Sociology 2, no. 3-4 (2015): 359-62.

"Intellectual Historiographies of Human Rights: Comment and Meaning."
Ideas in History 9, nos. 1-2 (2015): 5-35.

"Are Human Rights a Philosophy of History?: The Case for the Defense."
International Social Science Review 89, no. 1 (2014): 1-35 (article 4).

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Museum Tusculanum Press

Review of The Event of Postcolonial Shame, by Timothy Bewes
The European Legacy 19, no. 3 (2014): 390-1.

Human Rights in Europe During the Cold War (Routledge, 2014)

1. Cold War and Human Rights, Rasmus Mariager and Karl Molin PART 1: INCEPTION 2. Competition or Complement to Universal Human Rights? Perceptions of and positions on a European Convention for Human Rights, 1949–1952, Kjersti Brathagen 3. The British in Strasbourg: Negogiating the European Convention on Human Rights, Anne Deighton 4.Rights of the Refugee During the Cold War: A case study of Sweden 1945–1954, Cecilia Notini-Burch5."Universality Should Govern the Small World of Today": The Cold War and UN Human Rights Diplomacy, 1960–1968, Steven L. B. Jensen PART II: DISPERSION 6.The Helsinki Final Act, The Second Stage of Ostpolitik, and Human Rights in Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland,Robert Brier 7.Sweden, Ostpolitik and the Collective and Individual Rights of European Citizens, 1969-1975, Aryo Makko 8. Propoganda Tools and Idealistic Goals: Britain and the Cold War Politics of Human Rights in the CSCE,1972–1973, Kai Hebel PART III: EFFECTS 9. Human-Rights Demagoguery Hostile to Detente: The German Democratic Republic and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1975–1989, Douglas Selvage 10. A Trap and a Chance: Basket III, Dissents and State Authorities in Communist Poland, Wanda Jarząbek 11. Counter Culture, Hegemony and Human Rights: Rights and Resistance under the Cold War, Ben Dorfman

Post-Crisis Perspectives: The Common and its Powers (Peter Lang, 2013) Contents: Óscar García Agustín/Christian Ydesen: In Search of Post-Crisis Perspectives – Christian Marazzi: Money and Financial Capital: The Return of the Substance of Value – Maurizio Lazzarato: Debt Economy and the Indebted Man – Andrea Fumagalli: Cognitive Biocapitalism, the Precarity Trap, and Basic Income: Post-Crisis Perspectives – Cristina Morini: Social reproduction as a paradigm of the common. Reproduction antagonism, production crisis – Sandro Mezzadra: Seizing Europe - Crisis Management, Constitutional Transformations, Constituent Movements – Giuseppe Cocco: KORPOBRAZ: The Power of the Poor – Timothy S. Murphy: Pathogenesis, Financialization and the Politics of Time – Lars Poulsen: The Many Faces of Power - Subjectivity, the Common, and Fundamental Crisis – Christian Ydesen: The Creative Democratic Potential of the Multitude: Solidarity and Love as Transcendence in Immanence – Óscar García Agustín: The Art of Non-Playing Chess: The Institutionalization of the Common – Ben Dorfman: Mendicancy on the Edge of Crisis: The Gift of Rights in a Time of Global Strife – Pil Christensen: Private Debt in the Age of Crisis - Strategies of Resistance – Kurt Dauer Keller: Political Attitude in the Age of Globalization

Terminus: The End in Literature, Media and Culture (Aalborg University Press, 2013)

Ed. Brian Russell Graham and Robert W. Rix

"The articles in this book investigate, among other things, developments in literature, film, historiography, and new digital entertainment, to see how they reflect cultural anxieties about 'the end' and/or how they are determined by the need to mark boundaries."

Ben Dorfman, "Terminus, Politics and the End of History: Some Thought Questions about Human Rights, History, the State of Global Culture and Political Ends," 163-84.