Impressions of Hume

Davide Panagia is a political and cultural theorist who holds the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at Trent University. He is the Co-Editor of the cultural and political theory journal, Theory & Event, and is a contributor to The Contemporary Condition.

• List of IllustrationsRoll CreditsEditors’ IntroductionIntroduction: Impressions of HumeApproaching HumeOn Beholding1 Film Matters: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of DiscontinuityThe Action-ImageDiscontinuity and the Fact of the SeriesActors, Artificial Persons, and Human SomethingsPolitical Resistance and an Aesthetics of Politics2 A Treatment of Human PartsOn the Close-UpEmpiricism and Typographic CultureHume’s Train of ThinkingOf Human PartsDiscomposing One’s CharacterConclusion: A Micropolitics of Impressions3 Hume’s IconomyAn Excess of ImagesFluid SupportsConclusion4 Hume’s Point of View: Or, the ScreenSingle-Point Perspective and the General Point of ViewImpartiality, Sympathy, Reputation from a Cinematic Point of ViewThe Imagination and Hume’s train of thinkingThe “im” of ImpartialityThe Hold of SympathyReputation, Promising, and ProjectionConclusion: Sympathy’s ClaimConclusion: Hume and Cultural PoliticsBibliographyIndex

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.