Peter Gordon

Gordon is professor of history at Harvard. his book Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003) received the Salo W. Baron Prize for best book in Jewish history, the Goldstein-Goren Prize for best book in Jewish thought, and the Forkosch Prize for best book in intellectual history. He was co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (2007), The Modernist Imagination (2008), and Weimar Thought (forthcoming). His new book, Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos, will appear in early spring, 2010. Gordon is co-chair of the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual and Cultural History. In 2005 he received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching.