[2] Goehr's work focuses on the history of aesthetic theory, attempting to understand the relational nature of norms and power dynamics with the structure that confines them and regulates their practice.
[8] Goehr has written four books, co-edited two more, and has published numerous articles in the philosophy of music and critical theory.
Her second book, A Quest for Voice: On Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy (Clarendon Press, Oxford), is based on the Bloch Lectures, delivered at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997.
Her third book, published in 2008, is Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory (Columbia University Press).
Essays on the Legacy of an Opera; and with Jonathan Gilmore, of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Arthur C. Danto.