Peter Eli Gordon is an American historian of philosophy, and a critical theorist. The Amabel B. James Professor of History and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, Gordon focuses on continental philosophy and modern German and French thought, with particular emphasis on the German philosophers Theodor Adorno and Martin Heidegger, critical theory, continental philosophy during the interwar crisis, and most recently, secularization and social thought in the 20th century.
- Occupation
- historian
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1966
- Website
- https://scholar.harvard.edu/pgordon
