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I, Pierre Riviére, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother - A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century (Paperback) Loot Price: R651
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I, Pierre Riviére, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother - A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century (Paperback)

Michel Foucault; Translated by Frank Jellinek

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To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Riviere 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 Riviere's memoir. The Riviere 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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Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 1982
First published: December 1982
Editors: Michel Foucault
Translators: Frank Jellinek
Dimensions: 203 x 133 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-6857-9
Categories: Books > Social sciences > General
LSN: 0-8032-6857-2
Barcode: 9780803268579

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