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Law and the Modern Mind : Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture / Susanna L. Blumenthal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674495517
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.7301/38 23
LOC classification:
  • KF9242 .B58 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674495517

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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