Bach's Dialogue with Modernity

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Bach's Passions and the construction of early modern subjectivities
• 2. Bach's Passions and the textures of time
• 3. The hermeneutic perspective: negotiating the poles of faith and suspicion
• 4. The voices we hear and the construction of narrative authority
• 5. Between rhetoric and dialectic: Bach's inventive stance
• Afterword.