Law and the Modern Mind : Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture / Susanna L. Blumenthal.
2016
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Title
Law and the Modern Mind : Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture / Susanna L. Blumenthal.
Imprint
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Description
1 online resource (360 p.)
Formatted Contents Note
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Testimony of Consciousness
Chapter 1. Common Sense and Common Law
Chapter 2. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity
Part II. The Mind in Issue
Chapter 3. Unnatural Dispositions
Chapter 4. The Eccentricity of the Will
Chapter 5. Speculative Mania in the Age of Contract
Chapter 6. The Consideration of Love
Chapter 7. The Responsible Originator
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Testimony of Consciousness
Chapter 1. Common Sense and Common Law
Chapter 2. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity
Part II. The Mind in Issue
Chapter 3. Unnatural Dispositions
Chapter 4. The Eccentricity of the Will
Chapter 5. Speculative Mania in the Age of Contract
Chapter 6. The Consideration of Love
Chapter 7. The Responsible Originator
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Summary
Headline-grabbing murders are not the only cases in which sanity has been disputed in the American courtroom. Susanna Blumenthal traces this litigation, revealing how ideas of human consciousness, agency, and responsibility have shaped American jurisprudence as judges struggled to reconcile Enlightenment rationality with new sciences of the mind.
Language Note
In English.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Language
English
ISBN
9780674495517
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