# Peter E. Gordon Amabel B. James Professor of History Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, & Department of Philosophy ![Peter Gordon](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/history/files/peter_e_gordon_small_authors_photo.jpg?itok=aYboOnSh) location\_on Center for European Studies, Room 305, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-998-5419](tel:617-998-5419) email laptop\_windows [Personal Website](http://scholar.harvard.edu/pgordon) Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:00pm. The Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Room 305. Peter Gordon 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. [MORE](http://scholar.harvard.edu/pgordon) > [Books on Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Eli-Gordon/e/B001IU2MFW) *Photo credit: Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard Staff Photographer* - ## Faculty [Core Faculty](/faculty/core-faculty) - ## Last Initial (Faculty) [G](/first-letter-last-name/g) - ## Geographic Region [Europe](/region-study/europe) [France](/region-study/france) [Germany](/region-study/germany) - ## Theme and Methodology [Cultural History](/theme/cultural-history) [Intellectual History](/theme/intellectual-history) [International History](/theme/international-history) [Jewish](/theme/jewish) [Religion](/theme/religion) [Science & Technology](/theme/science-technology) - ## Time Period [17th & 18th Centuries](/time-period/17th-18th-centuries) [19th Century](/time-period/19th-century) [20th Century](/time-period/20th-century)