Peter Gordon (historian)

Peter Gordon
Born	Peter Eli Gordon 1966 (age 57–58) Seattle, Washington, US
Other names	Peter E. Gordon
Years active	1998–present
Academic background
Alma mater	Reed College University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Under One Tradewind[1] (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Martin Jay
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Intellectual history
Institutions	Harvard University
Main interests	Martin Heidegger interwar continental philosophy secularization
Notable works	Continental Divide (2010)
Website	scholar.harvard.edu/pgordon

Peter Eli Gordon (born 1966) is an American historian of philosophy, a critical theorist, and intellectual historian. The Amabel B. James Professor of History at Harvard University, Gordon focuses on continental philosophy and modern German and French thought,^[2] 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.^[3]