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.

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 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.