Impressions of Hume : cinematic thinking and the politics of discontinuity / Davide Panagia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Panagia, Davide, 1971-

Series:

Modernity and Political Thought

Modernity and political thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hume, David, 1711-1776--Political and social views.

Hume, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth, England : Rowman & Littlefield, c2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Roll Credits; Editors' Introduction; Notes; Introduction; Approaching Hume; On Beholding; Notes; 1 Film Matters; The Action-Image; Discontinuity and the Fact of the Series; Actors, Artificial Persons, and Human Somethings; Political Resistance and an Aesthetics of Politics; Notes; 2 A Treatment of Human Parts; or the Shot; 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; Notes; 3 Hume's Iconomy; An Excess of Images; Fluid Supports

ConclusionNotes; 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; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 14, 2013).

ISBN:

979-82-16-29875-5

1-4422-7591-X

1-4422-2210-7

OCLC:

858861435