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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Davide PanagiaPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9781442275911ISBN 10: 144227591 Pages: 188 Publication Date: 25 July 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsDavide 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 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 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 Author InformationDavide 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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