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218: 351:, 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. 554: 430:
develops arguments that Gordon first presented in Frankfurt in 1919 for the Adorno Lectures, sponsored by the Institute for Social Research and timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Adorno's death.
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Braiterman, Zachary (November 2005). "Peter Eli Gordon. Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003. 357 pp".
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Wolin, Richard (2012-04-01). "Peter E. Gordon. Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2010. Pp. xiv, 426. $ 39.95".
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Leventhal, Robert S. (June 2005). "Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy.(Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, number 33.)".
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Gordon teaches two survey courses on continental philosophy: German Social Thought and French Social Thought, and a lecture course on Hegel and Marx.
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before joining the faculty at Harvard in 2000. In 2006 he became a member of Harvard's permanent faculty, and in 2005 he received the
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Sheppard, Eugene R. (2006-07-13). "Three Questions for Peter Eli Gordon on his book: Introduction".
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The Modernist Imagination: Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory in Honor of Martin Jay
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and modern German and French thought, with particular emphasis on the German philosophers
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Gordon spent two years (1998–2000) at the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at
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McGrath, Larry (2011). "Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (review)".
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Bowie, Andrew (2017-07-12). "Adorno and Existence by Peter E. Gordon (review)".
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Under One Tradewind: Philosophical Expressionism from Rosenzweig to Heidegger
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Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization
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An Awareness of What is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secularist Age
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Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Seculariation
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thinking, which led to the development of his "negative dialectics".
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Rosenzweig and Heidegger, Between Judaism and German Philosophy
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Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy
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A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity
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A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity
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In the most recent years Gordon has published books such as
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Peter Gordon's bio at Harvard's Center for European Studies
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The Blackwell Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism
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Volume 69, Number 4 (October, 2008), pp. 647–673.
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Gordon's brief introduction to intellectual history,
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Harvard University Department of Philosophy faculty
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy
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(Routledge, 2007) 551:Vol. I, N. 2, (August, 2004), pp. 1–30. 16:American historian of philosophy (born 1966) 777:"UW Biochemistry - Faculty - Milton Gordon" 602:The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere. 1191: 917: 216: 839: 874: 264:and social thought in the 20th century. 1085: 1007: 750: 434:Gordon sits on the editorial boards of 1258: 960: 799: 648: 475:(University of California Press, 2003) 1148: 1050: 1151:Journal of the History of Philosophy 725: 723: 1235:Peter E. 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Reed College
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis
Martin Jay
Intellectual history
Harvard University
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Continental Divide
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continental philosophy
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Martin Heidegger
interwar crisis
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Milton Gordon
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