Peter Gordon

Gordon is Amabel B. James Professor of History and Harvard College Professor at Harvard. He works chiefly at the intersection of modern European intellectual history and continental philosophy. His books include Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003); The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (2007); The Modernist Imagination: Essays in Critical Theory and Intellectual History (2008); Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (2010); and Weimar Thought (forthcoming). Gordon is co-chair of the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History. In 2005 he received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is currently working on a book on secularization and social thought in the twentieth century.

Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos has been awarded the 2010 Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society.