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I, Pierre Riviére, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century

by Michel Foucault

2021-01-10 09:41:23

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To free his father and himself from his mother''s tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his se... Read more
To free his father and himself from his mother''s tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale.

Michel Foucault, author of Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish, collected the relevant documents of the case, including medical and legal testimony, police records. and Rivière''s memoir. The Rivière case, he points out, occurred at a time when many professions were contending for status and power. Medical authority was challenging law, branches of government were vying. Foucault''s reconstruction of the case is a brilliant exploration of the roots of our contemporary views of madness, justice, and crime.

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File size8 X 5.33 X 0.6 in
Print pages288
PublisherUNP - Nebraska Paperback
Publication date December 1, 1982
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780803268579
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Michel Foucault
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Paul-Michel Doria Foucault (Oct 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relation...

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