Peter Eli Gordon

Gordon is Amabel B. James Professor of History, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of German Literature, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Government, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He works chiefly in critical theory and the history of modern 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); Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy (2013); Adorno and Existence (2016); Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory, co-authored with Wendy Brown and Max Pensky (2018); Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization (2020); A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity (2024); and Walter Benjamin: the Pearl Diver (2025). He is also co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School, with Espen Hammer and Axel Honneth (2019); and co-editor of A Companion to Adorno (Blackwell, 2020). In 2005 he received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching. For further information see his Harvard website.