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Peter E. Gordon

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Seattle, WA, The United States

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https://scholar.harvard.edu/pgordon

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History, Philosophy

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aka Peter Eli Gordon

Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History, Faculty Affilitate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He works chiefly on themes in Continental philosophy and social thought in Germany and France in the late-modern era, with an emphasis on critical theory, Western Marxism, the Frankfurt School, phenomenology, and existentialism. Primarily a scholar of modern European social theory, he has published major works on Heidegger, the Frankfurt School, Jürgen Habermas, and Theodor W. Adorno.

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	Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos 4.21 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adorno and Existence 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (Volume 33) 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School by Peter E. Gordon (Editor), Espen Hammer (Editor), Axel Honneth (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century by Peter E. Gordon (Editor), Warren Breckman (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Companion to Adorno by Peter E. Gordon (Editor), Espen Hammer (Editor), Max Pensky (Editor) 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought (2 books)
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“Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human; it is just a way of taking responsibility for what one has already been given.”
― Peter E. Gordon

tags: authenticity, metaphysics, responsibility

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“In Dialectic of Enlightenment, Adorno and Horkheimer challenged the conventional view of fascism as an isolated moment in history by defining it as a dialectical regression: they saw it both as a consequence of late-capitalist modernity and as a modern reprisal of mythic energies that have animated the human species since the hour of its birth”
― Peter E. Gordon, The Authoritarian Personality

tags: fascism

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“[A] religious text has depth. The reader of Kafka's texts, however, can feel no such confidence in even the partial recuperation of deeper meaning. As Adorno notes, it is characteristic of Kafka's texts that "words, [and] metaphors in particular, detach themselves and achieve a certain autonomy." The experience of reading Kafka in this sense is the very opposite to theological interpretation: it defeats the religious hope that one might pierce the surface of these autonomous words to reach a level of ultimate meaning. Not without cause does Adorno call Kafka "the parabolist of impenetrability".”
― Peter E. Gordon

tags: adorno, interpretation, kafka, metaphor, religion, theology

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