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Peter E. Gordon
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Peter E. Gordon teaches philosophy and social theory at Harvard. His newest book is Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization .
At the center of Adorno’s work was a reminder that fascist movements are not exceptional to liberal democracy but signs of its failure.
If we knew there were no afterlife, would we make this life better?
January 10, 2019
Victor Klemperer’s dispatches from interwar Germany.
What is the relationship between the Holocaust’s history and its memory?
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Jürgen Habermas remains an indispensable guide to the unfinished project of democratic consciousness and enlightenment.
Through their editorial work on the writings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Gershom Scholem forged an unlikely friendship.
A new production of Alban Berg’s Lulu reveals the explosive powers still manifest in modern art.
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