Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Music Examples xi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part 1 Towards a Historical Method
8. 1. Music History Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall 11
9. 2. What is a Subject of Music History? 41
10. 3. The Absolute Nothingness of Music History 85
11. Part 2 Reflexions on Beethoven and his Age
12. 4. Beethoven and the Heroic Thing 111
13. 5. Beethoven’s Emergency Brake 131
14. 6. Glimpsing Beethoven’s Truth Content Through Analysis 149
15. 7. On a Chord in the ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata 169
16. Afterword: Beethoven’s Faithful, Reactive, and Obscure Music 209
17. Bibliography 215
18. Index 229