Peter Eli Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Eli Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Eli |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON P E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, the Twentieth Century
This chapter examines how European thinkers working from within and without the Frankfurt School of critical theory have understood the public sphere as a distinctive political category. First-generation members of the school rejected institutional democracy and mass politics as ideologies that mask domination. The succeeding generation, whose most important representative is Jürgen Habermas, rejected that diagnosis. Habermas’s more optimistic as…
Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular
Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy
Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labour theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. What Marx characterised as the dual character of the labour embodied in the commodity, he argues, is the doctrine of the King's Two Bodies transferred from the political theology of sovereignty to the realm of political economy. This genealogy, leading from the fetishism of the royal b…
Adorno and existence
From the beginning to the end of his career, the critical theorist and Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, often verging on polemic. In Kierkegaard he saw an early paragon for the late flowering of bourgeois solipsism; in Heidegger an impresario for a "jargon of authenticity" that cloaked its idealism in an aura of pseudo-co…
The Concept of the Apolitical: German Jewish Thought and Weimar Political Theology
of political theology and the question as to how the concepts and categories that inform political association may have derived historically from, or logically depend upon, prior concepts of religion. Debates over this question are partly normative: Does politics require theology, in the sense that theological concepts furnish the only possible warrant for our political commitments? Or, by contrast, does politics only come into its own if theolog…
Franz Rosenzweig and the Philosophy of Jewish Existence
The thought of Franz Rosenzweig is arguably the twentieth century’s most enduring monument to Jewish philosophy. Yet its deeper meaning continues to elude comprehension. No doubt this is chiefly due to the difficulty of Rosenzweig’s major work, The Star of Redemption (1921). Composed in the heat of inspiration, it overflows with effulgent metaphor and sometimes extravagant claims to religious insight. More challenging still, it presumes the reade…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy
Modern Jewish philosophy emerged in the seventeenth century, with the impact of the new science and modern philosophy on thinkers who were reflecting upon the nature of Judaism and Jewish life. This collection of essays examines the work of several of the most important of these figures, from the seventeenth to the late-twentieth centuries, and addresses themes central to the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy: language and revelation, autonom…
The Concept of the Apolitical: German Jewish Thought and Weimar Political Theology
Peter Eli Gordon The Concept of the Apolitical: German Jewish Thought and Weimar Political Theology INTRODUCTION: WEIMAR POLITICAL THEOLOGY RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN CONSIDERABLE DEBATE OVER THE CONCERNS of political theology and the question as to how the concepts and cate gories that inform political association may have derived historically from, or logically depend upon, prior concepts of religion. Debates over this question are partly normativ…
Response to My Critics
Response to My Critics Peter Eli Gordon (bio) Three bracing commentaries, and three, quite varied perspectives, from three scholars whose work I deeply admire. I am grateful for their remarks. Who would want to risk even the appearance of ingratitude with correctives and counter-arguments? There is nothing less dignified than a wounded author—except, perhaps, a wounded author who hastens to defend his work against its most insightful critics. But…
Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought (review)
David N. Myers. Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. x + 253
Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 33)
Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought during the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence on such philosophers as Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, Leo Strauss, and Emmanuel Levinas, Rosenzweig is remembered chiefly as a "Jewish thinker", often to the neglect o…
Painting History: Two Recent Books on Anselm Kiefer
Daniel Arasse, Anselm Kiefer, Mary Whittall, trans. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001)Lisa Saltzman, Anselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
Between Logic and Politics: Three Recent Books on Heidegger
Julian Young, Heidegger, philosophy, Nazism (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997)Herman Philipse, Heidegger's Philosophy of Being: A Critical Interpretation. (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998)Michael Friedman, A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (Chicago: Open Court, 2000
Rosenzweig Redux: The Reception of German-Jewish Thought
In Max Frisch's postwar novel, I'm Not Stiller, the title character may or may not be a man called "Stiller." He may be someone quite different. He may just happen to look sufficiently like Stiller so as to be confused for him. When he first appears on a train platform in Switzerland and is hauled off for questioning about his--that is, Stiller's--earlier disappearance, he protests to the Inspector that he is not Stiller and has no idea who this …
Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Translation, Ontology, and the Anxiety of Affiliation
Peter Eli Gordon, Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Translation, Ontology, and the Anxiety of Affiliation, New German Critique, No. 77, Special Issue on German-Jewish Religious Thought (Spring - Summer, 1999), pp. 113-148
Science, Finitude, and Infinity: Neo-Kantianism and the Birth of Existentialism
Science, Finitude, and Infinity: Neo-Kantianism and the Birth of Existentialism Peter Eli Gordon (bio) Where when I am wander-wearied Is my resting place to be? Shall I under palms be buried? Under Rhenish linden tree? Or will somewhere in the desert Bury me in a stranger’s hand? Shall I rest by some strange hazard On a seacoast in the sand? Never mind! I’ll be surrounded By God’s heaven where’er it be, And, as candles, in the unbounded Skies the…
The Concept of the Apolitical: German Jewish Thought and Weimar Political Theology
Peter Eli Gordon The Concept of the Apolitical: German Jewish Thought and Weimar Political Theology INTRODUCTION: WEIMAR POLITICAL THEOLOGY RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN CONSIDERABLE DEBATE OVER THE CONCERNS of political theology and the question as to how the concepts and cate gories that inform political association may have derived historically from, or logically depend upon, prior concepts of religion. Debates over this question are partly normativ…
Rosenzweig Redux: The Reception of German-Jewish Thought
In Max Frisch's postwar novel, I'm Not Stiller, the title character may or may not be a man called "Stiller." He may be someone quite different. He may just happen to look sufficiently like Stiller so as to be confused for him. When he first appears on a train platform in Switzerland and is hauled off for questioning about his--that is, Stiller's--earlier disappearance, he protests to the Inspector that he is not Stiller and has no idea who this …
Science, Finitude, and Infinity: Neo-Kantianism and the Birth of Existentialism
Science, Finitude, and Infinity: Neo-Kantianism and the Birth of Existentialism Peter Eli Gordon (bio) Where when I am wander-wearied Is my resting place to be? Shall I under palms be buried? Under Rhenish linden tree? Or will somewhere in the desert Bury me in a stranger’s hand? Shall I rest by some strange hazard On a seacoast in the sand? Never mind! I’ll be surrounded By God’s heaven where’er it be, And, as candles, in the unbounded Skies the…
Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Translation, Ontology, and the Anxiety of Affiliation
Peter Eli Gordon, Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Translation, Ontology, and the Anxiety of Affiliation, New German Critique, No. 77, Special Issue on German-Jewish Religious Thought (Spring - Summer, 1999), pp. 113-148
Science, Finitude, and Infinity: Neo-Kantianism and the Birth of Existentialism
Science, Finitude, and Infinity: Neo-Kantianism and the Birth of Existentialism Peter Eli Gordon (bio) Where when I am wander-wearied Is my resting place to be? Shall I under palms be buried? Under Rhenish linden tree? Or will somewhere in the desert Bury me in a stranger’s hand? Shall I rest by some strange hazard On a seacoast in the sand? Never mind! I’ll be surrounded By God’s heaven where’er it be, And, as candles, in the unbounded Skies the…
Between Logic and Politics: Three Recent Books on Heidegger
Julian Young, Heidegger, philosophy, Nazism (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997)Herman Philipse, Heidegger's Philosophy of Being: A Critical Interpretation. (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998)Michael Friedman, A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (Chicago: Open Court, 2000
Rosenzweig Redux: The Reception of German-Jewish Thought
In Max Frisch's postwar novel, I'm Not Stiller, the title character may or may not be a man called "Stiller." He may be someone quite different. He may just happen to look sufficiently like Stiller so as to be confused for him. When he first appears on a train platform in Switzerland and is hauled off for questioning about his--that is, Stiller's--earlier disappearance, he protests to the Inspector that he is not Stiller and has no idea who this …
Painting History: Two Recent Books on Anselm Kiefer
Daniel Arasse, Anselm Kiefer, Mary Whittall, trans. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001)Lisa Saltzman, Anselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 33)
Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought during the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence on such philosophers as Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, Leo Strauss, and Emmanuel Levinas, Rosenzweig is remembered chiefly as a "Jewish thinker", often to the neglect o…
Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought (review)
David N. Myers. Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. x + 253
Response to My Critics
Response to My Critics Peter Eli Gordon (bio) Three bracing commentaries, and three, quite varied perspectives, from three scholars whose work I deeply admire. I am grateful for their remarks. Who would want to risk even the appearance of ingratitude with correctives and counter-arguments? There is nothing less dignified than a wounded author—except, perhaps, a wounded author who hastens to defend his work against its most insightful critics. But…
The Concept of the Apolitical: German Jewish Thought and Weimar Political Theology
of political theology and the question as to how the concepts and categories that inform political association may have derived historically from, or logically depend upon, prior concepts of religion. Debates over this question are partly normative: Does politics require theology, in the sense that theological concepts furnish the only possible warrant for our political commitments? Or, by contrast, does politics only come into its own if theolog…
Franz Rosenzweig and the Philosophy of Jewish Existence
The thought of Franz Rosenzweig is arguably the twentieth century’s most enduring monument to Jewish philosophy. Yet its deeper meaning continues to elude comprehension. No doubt this is chiefly due to the difficulty of Rosenzweig’s major work, The Star of Redemption (1921). Composed in the heat of inspiration, it overflows with effulgent metaphor and sometimes extravagant claims to religious insight. More challenging still, it presumes the reade…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy
Modern Jewish philosophy emerged in the seventeenth century, with the impact of the new science and modern philosophy on thinkers who were reflecting upon the nature of Judaism and Jewish life. This collection of essays examines the work of several of the most important of these figures, from the seventeenth to the late-twentieth centuries, and addresses themes central to the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy: language and revelation, autonom…
The Concept of the Apolitical: German Jewish Thought and Weimar Political Theology
Peter Eli Gordon The Concept of the Apolitical: German Jewish Thought and Weimar Political Theology INTRODUCTION: WEIMAR POLITICAL THEOLOGY RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN CONSIDERABLE DEBATE OVER THE CONCERNS of political theology and the question as to how the concepts and cate gories that inform political association may have derived historically from, or logically depend upon, prior concepts of religion. Debates over this question are partly normativ…
Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy
Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labour theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. What Marx characterised as the dual character of the labour embodied in the commodity, he argues, is the doctrine of the King's Two Bodies transferred from the political theology of sovereignty to the realm of political economy. This genealogy, leading from the fetishism of the royal b…
Adorno and existence
From the beginning to the end of his career, the critical theorist and Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, often verging on polemic. In Kierkegaard he saw an early paragon for the late flowering of bourgeois solipsism; in Heidegger an impresario for a "jargon of authenticity" that cloaked its idealism in an aura of pseudo-co…
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, the Twentieth Century
This chapter examines how European thinkers working from within and without the Frankfurt School of critical theory have understood the public sphere as a distinctive political category. First-generation members of the school rejected institutional democracy and mass politics as ideologies that mask domination. The succeeding generation, whose most important representative is Jürgen Habermas, rejected that diagnosis. Habermas’s more optimistic as…
Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular
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