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List 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
Davide 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