Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- PROLOGUE: An Unlikely Genre: The Rise of the Symphony -- CHAPTER ONE: Listening with Imagination: The Revolution in Aesthetics -- From Kant to Hoffmann -- Idealism and the Changing Perception of Perception -- Idealism and the New Aesthetics of Listening -- CHAPTER TWO: Listening as Thinking: From Rhetoric to Philosophy -- Listening in a Rhetorical Framework -- Listening in a Philosophical Framework -- Art as Philosophy -- CHAPTER THREE: Listening to Truth: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony -- The Infinite Sublime -- History as Knowing -- The Synthesis of Conscious and Unconscious -- Organic Coherence -- Beyond the Sublime -- CHAPTER FOUR: Listening to the Aesthetic State: Cosmopolitanism -- The Communal Voice of the Symphony -- The Imperatives of Individual and Social Synthesis -- The State as Organism -- Schiller's Idea of the Aesthetic State -- Goethe's Pedagogical Province -- CHAPTER FIVE: Listening to the German State: Nationalism -- German Nationalism -- The Symphony as a "German" Genre -- The Performance Politics of the Music Festival -- The Symphony as Democracy -- EPILOGUE: Listening to Form: The Refuge of Absolute Music -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z.