Dostoevsky and the Law

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Author(s): Amy D. Ronner
Edition: 1
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Year: 2015

Language: English
Pages: 323
City: Durham

Contents......Page 8
Author’s Note......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
I. Introduction......Page 18
II. The Life......Page 21
III. Critical Perspectives......Page 49
IV. The Legal Lens......Page 59
V. The Organization of The Book......Page 70
I. Introduction......Page 72
II. Testamentary Freedom and the Mental Capacity Doctrine......Page 77
A. Lack of General Mental Capacity......Page 80
B. Insane Delusion......Page 82
1. The Bizarre......Page 85
2. The Non-Bizarre......Page 88
A. The Putative Story......Page 101
B. The Critics......Page 105
1. Pre-Double......Page 112
2. Meeting the Double......Page 118
3. Post-Double......Page 121
D. Does the Double Truly Exist?......Page 127
IV. Conclusion: Golyadkins Human “Shriek”......Page 133
I. Introduction......Page 138
A. United States Supreme Court......Page 141
1. Due Process: Totality of the Circumstances......Page 142
2. Miranda: Coercion......Page 145
3. Sixth Amendment: Deliberate Elicitation......Page 148
B. Commentators......Page 152
III. Dostoevsky’s Confessant Gene......Page 157
A. The Compulsive Self-Incriminator......Page 160
1. Confession as Motive......Page 161
2. The Crime as Confession......Page 166
3. The Confession......Page 169
B. The Self-Flagellating Confessant......Page 170
1. Mitya’s Confession: Purgation of Shame......Page 172
2. Ivan’s Confession: Spiritual Crisis......Page 189
C. Miscarriage of Justice......Page 207
IV. Conclusion: The ‘‘Experience of Active Love”......Page 219
I. Introduction......Page 226
II. Dead House: Stripped of Free Will and Human Dignity......Page 229
A. No Free Will......Page 0
B. No Human Dignity......Page 237
1. Free Will and Human Dignity......Page 242
2. The Denigration of Free Will and Human Dignity......Page 244
B. Miranda Protection......Page 247
1. Free Will and Human Dignity......Page 248
2. The Denigration of Free Will and Human Dignity......Page 250
A. Miranda Once Applied......Page 258
B. Inmates Don't Always Get Miranda......Page 260
C. Inmates Never Get Miranda......Page 262
V. The Recreation of Dead House......Page 265
A. No Free Will......Page 266
B. No Human Dignity......Page 278
VI. Conclusion: Why Care?......Page 282
Chapter Five. Conclusion: Stushevatsia and Other Expressed Ideas......Page 292
Index......Page 302