Peter E. Gordon is Amabel B. James Professor of History and Faculty Affiliate in Philosophy and German Languages and Literatures at Harvard. His latest is book is A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity.
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Peter E. Gordon is Amabel B. James Professor of History and Faculty Affiliate in Philosophy and German Languages and Literatures at Harvard. His latest is book is A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity.
Among the most innovative poets of European modernism, he forged a new path for poetry after the terrors of the twentieth century.
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