Ben Dorfman is associate professor of intellectual and cultural history and coordinator of the Language and International Studies program at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is also the author of 13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights: Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics (2017) and Rights under Trial, Rights Reflections: 13 Further Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights (2020) on Peter Lang.

Ben Dorfman’s new book offers plenty of insights in an excellent and thought-provoking contribution to the scholarship on human rights and philosophy, global governance, and aesthetics. It stands out with delightful prose, beyond the common academic style, ingeniously relating theory on those decisive issues to the threats and dilemmas of the present.- Mats Andrén, Professor, Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion, University of Gothenburg

• Preface/Acknowledgements – Introduction – The Historical Phenomenology of Human Rights: Rights, History, Advocacy – Human Rights and World Government – Writing Human Rights: Towards an Academic Journalism – Epilogue: Rights and the Future

Ben Dorfman is associate professor of intellectual and cultural history and coordinator of the Language and International Studies program at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is also the author of 13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights: Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics (2017) and Rights under Trial, Rights Reflections: 13 Further Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights (2020) on Peter Lang.

Ben Dorfman’s new book offers plenty of insights in an excellent and thought-provoking contribution to the scholarship on human rights and philosophy, global governance, and aesthetics. It stands out with delightful prose, beyond the common academic style, ingeniously relating theory on those decisive issues to the threats and dilemmas of the present.- Mats Andrén, Professor, Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion, University of Gothenburg

• Preface/Acknowledgements – Introduction – The Historical Phenomenology of Human Rights: Rights, History, Advocacy – Human Rights and World Government – Writing Human Rights: Towards an Academic Journalism – Epilogue: Rights and the Future

Ben Dorfman is associate professor of intellectual and cultural history and coordinator of the Language and International Studies program at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is also the author of 13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights: Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics (2017) and Rights under Trial, Rights Reflections: 13 Further Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights (2020) on Peter Lang.

Ben Dorfman’s new book offers plenty of insights in an excellent and thought-provoking contribution to the scholarship on human rights and philosophy, global governance, and aesthetics. It stands out with delightful prose, beyond the common academic style, ingeniously relating theory on those decisive issues to the threats and dilemmas of the present.- Mats Andrén, Professor, Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion, University of Gothenburg

• Preface/Acknowledgements – Introduction – The Historical Phenomenology of Human Rights: Rights, History, Advocacy – Human Rights and World Government – Writing Human Rights: Towards an Academic Journalism – Epilogue: Rights and the Future