Books by Ben Dorfman

This work addresses contemporary human rights issues as well as aesthetic and historical reflections on rights. It address rights as a matter of historical evolution, philosophy, and social norms. The work employs academic, journalistic, and commentary styles and is intended to engage both historical scenes and contemporary events.

This book addresses human rights, contemporary events and various historical scenes evocative of rights issues. Surveyed are problems such as human rights and the arts, terrorism, the Middle East conflict, the American presidential election and ideas of civilizational clash.

Ideas in History is the result of collaborative efforts among nearly a dozen universities and colleges throughout the Nordic countries. The purpose of these initiatives is to further awareness of research, resources and activities in the field of intellectual history in the Nordic countries as well as internationally. The journal aims to create a meeting ground for the study of ideas in historical context across disciplinary, geographical and institutional boundaries. Ideas in History welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to intellectual history at the same time it acknowledges specific traditions in the field. Ideas in History seeks a pluralism of methodological approaches to intellectual history: reflections on the field, historical contexts studied, subject matter for intellectual-historical investigation, critical understandings of relations between the intellectual past and present as well as the comprehension of culturally, politically and geographically diverse intellectual traditions. Contents in Vol. 8.2: Gunilla Hermansson, "Imagined Wars and Cultural Borders: A Case of Nordic Modernism" 5; Merethe Roos, "Medical Enlightenment and Social Mobilization from the Pulpit. The Clergy as Public Health and Social Workers in Denmark-Norway at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century" 25; Martin Alm, "Anti-Americanism vs. Anti-Europeanism? American Views of European Anti-Americanism" 47; Line Joranger, "Karl Jaspers' Interdisciplinary and Dual Psychopathology" 75

Taking its point of departure in the pressing nature of culture and media theory and analysis in the contemporary global environment, “Culture, Media, Theory, Practice: Perspectives” offers a range of theoretical and analytical perspectives from researchers associated with the Culture and Media Studies program at Aalborg University. The text is organized around four questions:* What does it mean to theorize culture? * What does it mean to practice cultural analysis? * What does it mean to theorize media? * What does it mean to practice media analysis? The purpose of these questions is to connect research by faculty with Culture and Media Studies with global discourses in the field, and provide a view of researchers reflecting on their methods that will be of use for students and researchers of culture and media alike.