{"product_id":"impressions-of-hume-9780742548176","title":"Impressions of Hume","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavide Panagiaâs Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity is volume fifteen of Modernity and Political Thought, the Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield series in contemporary political theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavide 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 \u0026amp; Event *\u003cbr\u003eIn 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037611753815,"sku":"9780742548176","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780742548176.jpg?v=1750936493","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/impressions-of-hume-9780742548176","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}