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Index
Table of 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: Beethovens 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
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