Peter Gordon / Critical Theory Between the Sacred and the Profane

A small workshop led by historian Peter Gordon (Harvard University) on a pre-distributed paper entitled "Critical Theory Between the Sacred and the Profane." Stanford faculty or students or other official Stanford affiliates may contact Michael Friedman or Brent Sockness to request a copy of the paper.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, the Patrick Suppes Center for History and Philosophy of Science, and the Stanford Humanities Center.

PETER GORDON is the Amabel B. James Professor of History at Harvard University. He specializes in modern European Intellectual History from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century.  He works chiefly on themes in Continental philosophy and social thought in Germany and France in the modern period, with an emphasis on critical theory, Western Marxism, the Frankfurt School, phenomenology, and existentialism.  His books include Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003); The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (2007); The Modernist Imagination: Essays in Critical Theory and Intellectual History (2008); Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (2010); Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy (2013).