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  • Authoritarianism

    Three Inquiries in Critical Theory

    by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon, Max Pensky ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address the causes and circumstances behind the rise of autocracies and oligarchies.Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Trace of God

    Derrida and Religion

    by Edward Baring, Peter E. Gordon ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    "Derrida's most lasting legacy might well be his writings on religion . . . If the perplexed seek a guide, they can do no better than this excellent volume." —Warren Breckman, University of PennsylvaniaJacques Derrida's writings on the question of religion have played a crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the globe. The Trace of God provides a compact introduction to this ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walter Benjamin

    The Pearl Diver

    by Peter E. Gordon ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of his time“A short, serene volume. . . . Gordon avoids treating his subject in allegorical terms, in part because Benjamin always resisted conscription into a story larger than his own.�—Anahid Nersessian, New YorkerWalter Benjamin (1892†... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Max Weber at 100

    Legacies and Prospects

    Edited by Joshua Derman, Peter E. Gordon ...
    The year 2020 marked the centennial of the death of Max Weber, the German sociologist, scholar of world religions, economic historian, social philosopher, and theoretician of modern political life. This volume presents a collection of essays on the legacy and relevance of his thought. The authors, an international array of distinguished scholars, are drawn from various disciplines--philosophy, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 1, The Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
    The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Adorno and Existence

    by Peter E. Gordon ...
    From the beginning to the end of his career, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, 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” cloaking its idealism in an aura of pseudo ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • A Precarious Happiness

    Adorno and the Sources of Normativity

    by Peter E. Gordon ...
    A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s work as a critique animated by happiness**—now in paperback.**"Gordon’s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno’s negativism."—Jürgen HabermasTheodor Adorno is often portrayed as a totalizing negativist, a scowling contrarian who looked upon modern society with despair. Peter E. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century

    Edited by Peter E. Gordon, Warren Breckman ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
    The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Formations of Belief

    Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular

    by Professor Katja Guenther, Max Weiss, Yaacob Dweck, Stefania Pastore, Peter Brown, Caterina Pizzigoni, Victoria Smolkin0, Brad S. Gregory1, Peter E. Gordon2, Muhammad Qasim Zaman3, Anthony T. Grafton4 ...
    Series series Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University
    For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life—and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. Formations of Belief brings together many of today's leading historians to shed critical light on secularism's origins, its present crisis, and whether it ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Migrants in the Profane

    Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization

    by Peter E. Gordon ...
    Series series The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series
    A beautifully written exploration of religion’s role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theoryMigrants in the Profane takes its title from an intriguing remark by Theodor W. Adorno, in which he summarized the meaning of Walter Benjamin’s image of a celebrated mechanical chess-playing Turk and its hidden religious animus: “Nothing of theological content will ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Modernist Imagination

    Intellectual History and Critical Theory

    Edited by Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon, A. Dirk Moses, Samuel Moyn ...
    Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recognizing their potential contributions to theoretical discourse. No one has done more than Martin Jay ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • An Essay on Man

    An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

    by Ernst Cassirer ...
    Series series Veritas Paperbacks
    One of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man’s cultural achievementsAn Essay on Man is an original synthesis of contemporary knowledge, a unique interpretation of the intellectual crisis of our time, and a brilliant vindication of man’s ability to resolve human problems by the courageous use of his mind. In a new introduction Peter E. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD