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Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture

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

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Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture 2016, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674048935

Hardcover