{"title":"Peter E. Gordon","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter E. Gordon's works delve into the complexities of modern thought, exploring pivotal figures and ideas that have shaped contemporary philosophy and culture. His writings offer a nuanced examination of intellectual history, revealing the intersections between philosophy, history, and biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful analyses that illuminate the lives and legacies of influential thinkers, blending rigorous scholarship with accessible narrative. Gordon's books invite reflection on the enduring questions of human experience and the evolution of ideas across time.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"continental-divide-by-peter-e-gordon-9780674064171","title":"Continental Divide","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched upon the most urgent questions in the history of philosophy: What is human finitude? What is objectivity? What is culture? What is truth?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the last eighty years, the Davos encounter has acquired an allegorical significance, as if it marked an ultimate and irreparable rupture in twentieth-century Continental thought. Here, in a reconstruction at once historical and philosophical, Peter Gordon reexamines the conversation, its origins and its aftermath, resuscitating an event that has become entombed in its own mythology. Through a close and painstaking analysis, Gordon dissects the exchange itself to reveal that it was at its core a philosophical disagreement over what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Gordon also shows how the life and work of these two philosophers remained closely intertwined. Their disagreement can be understood only if we appreciate their common point of departure as thinkers of the German interwar crisis, an era of rebellion that touched all of the major philosophical movements of the day—life-philosophy, philosophical anthropology, neo-Kantianism, phenomenology, and existentialism. As Gordon explains, the Davos debate would continue to both inspire and provoke well after the two men had gone their separate ways. It remains, even today, a touchstone of philosophical memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis clear, riveting book will be of great interest not only to philosophers and to historians of philosophy but also to anyone interested in the great intellectual ferment of Europe's interwar years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000574886124,"sku":"9780674064171","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27229383482427.jpg?v=1763286533"},{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-by-peter-e-gordon-9780300216868","title":"Walter Benjamin","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of his time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/em\u003e (1892–1940) is widely considered one of the most creative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Esteemed for his literary acumen and capacious imagination, he developed a unique style of criticism—his friend Hannah Arendt called it pearl-diving—that sought out fragments of redemption in the ruins of bourgeois civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAward-winning author Peter E. Gordon tells Benjamin's story in a vivid and poetic style, inviting the reader to look beyond the image of Benjamin as a tragic figure of German-Jewish history and portraying him as a complex personality of unique and multifaceted gifts. Tracing Benjamin's life from his Berlin childhood to his Parisian exile, through the romanticism of the youth movements and the conflicts over modernism and Marxism, Gordon compellingly brings Benjamin to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933360210156,"sku":"9780300216868","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300216868-walter-benjamin.jpg?v=1783869094"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/peter-e-gordon.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}