Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity

Davide Panagia

doi:10.5771/9781442222106

Summary

Davide Panagia’s 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. Through close attention to Hume’s theories of sensation, Davide Panagia conceptualizes the modern even more radically (though also more literally) than many of the previous authors in this series. While devoting attention to how a historical thinker such as Hume is read and misread, used and abused in the modern intellectual world, Panagia also focuses on developing a theory of Humean perception and by so doing emphasizes the contemporaneity of Hume’s thought. In what at first seems to be an anachronistic as well as wildly curious claim about a philosopher of the eighteenth century, Panagia holds that Hume was a cinematic thinker.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2013
Copyright Year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-4817-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-2210-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 158
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. List of Illustrations No access
3. Roll Credits No access
4. 1. Notes No access
1. Approaching Hume No access
2. On Beholding No access
3. Notes No access
1. The Action-Image No access
2. Discontinuity and the Fact of the Series No access
3. Actors, Artificial Persons, and Human Somethings No access
4. Political Resistance and an Aesthetics of Politics No access
5. Notes No access
1. On the Close-Up No access
2. Empiricism and Typographic Culture No access
3. Hume’s Train of Thinking No access
4. Of Human Parts No access
5. Discomposing One’s Character No access
6. Conclusion: A Micropolitics of Impressions No access
7. Notes No access
1. An Excess of Images No access
2. Fluid Supports No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
1. Single-Point Perspective and the General Point of View No access
2. Impartiality, Sympathy, Reputation from a Cinematic Point of View No access
3. The Imagination and Hume’s train of thinking No access
4. The “im” of Impartiality No access
5. The Hold of Sympathy No access
6. Reputation, Promising, and Projection No access
7. Conclusion: Sympathy’s Claim No access
8. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 145 - 150
Index No access Pages 151 - 158