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I, Pierre Rivire, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother-- - Michel Foucault
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Title
I, Pierre Rivire, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother-- - a case of parricide in the 19th century
I, Pierre Rivire, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother-- - a case of parricide in the 19th century
Author
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
format
Paperback / softback
Paperback / softback
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
University of Nebraska Press
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
19821201
19821201
Description
To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivire decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hookand 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 Rivire's memoir. The Rivire 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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