Name: i, pierre riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother ...,a case of parricide in the nineteenth century
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Author: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780803268579

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i, pierre riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother ...,a case of parricide in the nineteenth century

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Michel Foucault

Translated by

Frank Jellinek

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Author

Michel Foucault

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.5 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN

0803268572

ISBN13

9780803268579

Synopsis "i, pierre riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother ...,a case of parricide in the nineteenth century"

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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Michel Foucault (Poiters, 1926 – Paris, 1984), philosopher, historian, and French sociologist, was a professor at numerous universities both in France and internationally. In 1970, the general assembly of professors at the Collège de France granted him the chair of History of Systems of Thought, which he held until his death.
Son of a prominent surgeon from the Vichy area, Foucault did not excel in his studies until he reached the École Normale Supérieure, a prerequisite for entering the University, where he studied philosophy and psychology. Nevertheless, he ended up earning his doctorate and becoming the most cited author in the world in the field of humanities in 2007, according to The Times Higher Education Guide.
In 1966 he published Les Mots et les choses, one of his most important contributions to structuralism along with Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Roland Barthes.
Michel Foucault is the author, among other books, of Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality—of which he only completed 3 volumes—, Mental Illness and Personality, Mental Illness and Psychology, Fearless Speech, Essential Works, and Language and Literature, the last five published by Paidós.

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