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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Blumenthal, Susanna L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674495517; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674495517
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Susanna L. Blumenthal.

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.