Peter E. Gordon

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.

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump

The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.

  • Peter E. Gordon

The Summers of Theory

How it rose, fell, and may rise again.

  • Peter E. Gordon

Letter from Berlin

On the situation in Germany in the wake of October 7.

  • Peter E. Gordon

Poet of the Impossible: Paul Celan at 100

Among the most innovative poets of European modernism, he forged a new path for poetry after the terrors of the twentieth century.

  • Peter E. Gordon

Lenny Boy

A personal essay on family, death, and the healing power of music.

  • Peter E. Gordon

Mourning in America

Why the left needs melancholy.

  • Peter E. Gordon
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