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

 
9780803268579: I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century: A Case of Parricide in the Nineteenth Century
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803268572 ISBN 13: 9780803268579
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1982

Inhaltsangabe

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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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1982
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803268572
ISBN 13 
9780803268579
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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