Tag: Peter E. Gordon

Nation & World
It can’t happen here, probably

Authoritarianism appears on the rise in the United States, but fascism does not, panelists say at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

February 22, 2017

4 minutes
Campus & Community
‘Continential Divide’ awarded

The American Philosophical Society awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize for the best book in cultural history published in 2010 to Amabel B. James Professor of History Peter E. Gordon.

May 10, 2012

1 minute
Arts & Culture
Filmmaker who bore witness to Holocaust

A cinema legend’s advice on making films about unspeakable war crimes: “Go to see the killers.”

March 28, 2012

5 minutes
Arts & Culture
Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos

Professor of History Peter E. Gordon recreates the Davos, Switzerland, meeting between philosophers Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer, and their divided opinions on those heady questions of what is truth and what it means to be human.

October 21, 2010

1 minute