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Peter E. Gordon
Peter E. Gordon (born 1967?) is the Annabel B. James Professor of History at Harvard University. Gordon is an intellectual historian who focuses on Continental Philosophy and modern German and French social thought. Gordon has worked extensively on the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, philosophy during the interwar crisis in Europe, and most recently, secularization and social thought in the twentieth century.

Born in Seattle, Washington, Gordon received his BA from Reed College (1988) after a stint at the University of Chicago. He studied with Martin Jay at University of California, Berkeley, from which he received his PhD (1997). Gordon joined the faculty at Harvard in 2000. In 2005 he received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 2006 he became a member of Harvard's permanent faculty.

Gordon's first book, Rosenzweig and Heidegger, Between Judaism and German Philosophy (California, 2003) won the Salo W. Baron Prize from the Academy for Jewish Research for Best First Book, the Goldstein-Goren Prize for Best Book in Jewish Philosophy, and the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas for Best Book in Intellectual History. His most recent monograph, Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (Harvard, 2010) reconstructs the famous 1929 debate between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer at Davos, demonstrating its significance as a point of rupture in twentieth-century Continental thought and as a touchstone for philosophical memory. Continental Divide was awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society.

Gordon serves on the editorial boards for Modern Intellectual History, The Journal of the History of Ideas, and New German Critique. He is co-founder and co-chair of the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History.

Publications

 * Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (Harvard University Press, 2010)
 * Weimar Thought: A Critical History (co-editor with John McCormick, Princeton University Press, forthcoming, spring 2013)
 * The Modernist Imagination: Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory in Honor of Martin Jay (co-editor with Warren Breckman, et al., Berghahn Books, 2008)
 * The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (co-editor with Michael Morgan, Cambridge University Press, 2007)
 * Rosenzweig and Heidegger, Between Judaism and German Philosophy (University of California Press, 2003)