I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother...: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
by Michel Foucault (Editor)
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- ISBN 13
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First Bison Book Printing. Translation by Frank Jellinik of "Moi, Pierre Riviere, ayant egorge ma mere, ma soeur et mon frere..." (Gallimard, 1973). Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", is like new. xiv/288 pages.
"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."
"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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- Title
- I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother...: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
- Author
- Michel Foucault (Editor)
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0803268572
- ISBN 13
- 9780803268579
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln, Nebraska, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- French Literature, Philosophy
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