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

Peter E. Gordon is Amabel B. James Professor of History at Harvard University, Massachusetts. He is a resident faculty member at Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and has held fellowships from the Princeton Society of Fellows and the Davis Center at Princeton University. He is the award-winning author of Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003), Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (2010), Adorno and Existence (2016) and co-editor of several books, including The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School (with Espen Hammer and Axel Honneth, 2018). Warren Breckman is the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1995. He is the author of Marx, the Young Hegelians and the Origins of Radical Social Theory (Cambridge, 1999), European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents (2007) and Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-marxism and Radical Democracy (2013). He served as co-editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas (2006–10) and co-edited the volume The Modernist Imagination: Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory (2008) also with Peter E. Gordon.

1. Sociology and the heroism of modern life Martin Jay; 2. Psychoanalysis: Freud and beyond Katja Guenther; 3. Modern physics: from crisis to crisis Jimena Canales; 4. Varieties of phenomenology Dan Zahavi; 5. Existentialism and the meanings of transcendence Edward Baring; 6. Philosophies of life Giuseppe Bianco; 7. The many faces of analytical philosophy Joel Isaac; 8. American ideas in the European imagination James T. Kloppenberg and Sam Klug; 9. Revolution from the right: against equality Udi Greenberg; 10. Western Marxism: revolutions in theory Max Pensky; 11. Anti-imperialism and interregnum Kris Manjapra; 12. Late modern feminist subversions: sex, subjectivity, and embodiment Sandrine Sanos; 13. Modernist theologies: the many paths between God and world Peter E. Gordon; 14. Modern economic thought and the 'good society' Hagen Schulz-Forberg; 15. Conservatism and its discontents Steven B. Smith; 16. Modernity and the specter of totalitarianism Samuel Moyn; 17. Decolonization terminable and interminable Judith Surkis; 18. Structuralism and the return of the symbolic Camille Robcis; 19. Poststructuralism: from deconstruction to the genealogy of power Julian Bourg and Ethan Kleinberg; 20. Contesting the public sphere: within and against critical theory David Ingram; 21. Restructuring democracy and the idea of Europe Seyla Benhabib and Stefan Eich.