Impressions of Hume MODERNITY AND POLITICAL THOUGHT Series Editors: Morton Schoolman State University of New York at Albany and Kennan Ferguson University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Thisuniquecollectionoforiginalstudiesofthegreatfiguresinthehistoryofpoliticaland socialthoughtcriticallyexaminestheircontributionstoourunderstandingofmodernity, itsconstitution,andthepromiseandproblemslatentwithinit.Theseworksarewrittenby someofthefinesttheoristsofourtimeforscholarsandstudentsofthesocialsciencesand humanities. TitlesintheSeries TheAugustinianImperative:AReflectiononthePoliticsofMorality,byWilliamE. Connolly EmersonandSelf-Reliance,byGeorgeKateb EdmundBurke:Modernity,Politics,andAesthetics,byStephenK.White Jean-JacquesRousseau:ThePoliticsoftheOrdinary,byTracyB.Strong MichelFoucaultandthePoliticsofFreedom,byThomasL.Dumm Reading“AdamSmith”:Desire,History,andValue,byMichaelJ.Shapiro ThomasHobbes:Skepticism,Individuality,andChastenedPolitics,byRichardE.Flath- man Thoreau’sNature:Ethics,Politics,andtheWild,byJaneBennett G.W.F.Hegel:ModernityandPolitics,byFredR.Dallmayr TheReluctantModernismofHannahArendt,bySeylaBenhabib WilliamJames:PoliticsinthePluriverse,byKennanFerguson Merleau-PontyandModernPoliticsafterAnti-Humanism,byDianaCoole AquinasandModernity:TheLostPromiseofNaturalLaw,byShadiaDrury CarlSchmittandtheIntensificationofPolitics,byKamShapiro ImpressionsofHume:CinematicThinkingandthePoliticsofDiscontinuity,byDavide Panagia Impressions of Hume Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity Davide Panagia ROWMAN&LITTLEFIELD Lanham•Boulder •NewYork•Toronto•Plymouth,UK PublishedbyRowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2013byRowman&Littlefield Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Panagia,Davide,1971– ImpressionsofHume:cinematicthinkingandthepoliticsofdiscontinuity/DavidePanagia. pagescm.—(Modernityandpoliticalthought) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-7425-4817-6(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN978-1-4422-2210-6(electronic:alk.paper) 1.Hume,David,1711–1776—Politicalandsocialviews.I.Title. JC176.H9P362013 320.01—dc23 2013003795 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsof AmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrinted LibraryMaterials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ForKenReshaur(1938–2010) InMemoriam Astohowblanknesscanyieldimage,Idonotpretendtoknow,thoughI supposethatisthequestion,ultimately,thatunderliestheentirehistoryofart. —Parkaboy,PatternRecognition(W.Gibson) WithpermissionfromthePaceGallery HiroshiSugimoto:CineramaDome,Hollywood(1993)