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Book SynopsisDavide Panagiaâs Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity is volume fifteen of Modernity and Political Thought, the Rowman & Littlefield series in contemporary political theory.
Trade ReviewDavide Panagia has offered a very important contribution to Hume scholarship that promises to show the relevance of Hume to a number of contemporary debates and discussions. * Theory & Event *
In a terse and vivid reading Panagia affiliates Hume’s Treatise with the experience of cinema: evanescent, kaleidoscopic, flickering, forever unsettling. Resisting regulation or consensus, Hume’s writings on sensation enable us to put an aesthetic of film in the service of a politics. A committed and sustained reflection on every page, Impressions offers a pragmatic and historically informed treatment of philosophy and cinema. -- Tom Conley, Department of Romance Languages, Harvard University
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Roll Credits Editors’ Introduction Introduction: Impressions of Hume Approaching Hume On Beholding 1 Film Matters: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity The Action-Image Discontinuity and the Fact of the Series Actors, Artificial Persons, and Human Somethings Political Resistance and an Aesthetics of Politics 2 A Treatment of Human Parts On the Close-Up Empiricism and Typographic Culture Hume’s Train of Thinking Of Human Parts Discomposing One’s Character Conclusion: A Micropolitics of Impressions 3 Hume’s Iconomy An Excess of Images Fluid Supports Conclusion 4 Hume’s Point of View: Or, the Screen Single-Point Perspective and the General Point of View Impartiality, Sympathy, Reputation from a Cinematic Point of View The Imagination and Hume’s train of thinking The “im” of Impartiality The Hold of Sympathy Reputation, Promising, and Projection Conclusion: Sympathy’s Claim Conclusion: Hume and Cultural Politics Bibliography Index
