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The Broken Staff
Analyzing the perceptions and interpretations of Judaism and Jewish traditions in Christianity and in Western culture from the medieval period until the 20th century, deals also with theological "Judeophobia" and anti-Jewish stereotypes, as well as with different forms of anti-Jewish prejudices (e.g. Voltaire, Holbach, Gobineau).
History of the Christian Church from the Reformation to the Present Time
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against that notion of absolute music which tends to be the paradigm for most musicological and analytical studies. It is concerned not so much with what music is, but with why and how meaning is constructed in instrumental music and what structures of knowledge need to be in place for such meaning to exist. From the thought of Vincenzo Galilei to that of Theodore Adorno, Daniel Chua suggests that instrumental music has always been a critical and negative force in modernity, even with its nineteenth-century apotheosis as 'absolute music'.
