I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother

副标题: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century

ISBN: 9780803268579

出版社: University of Nebraska Press

出版年: 1982-12

页数: 288

定价: US$18.95

装帧: Paperback

原作名: Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère

内容简介

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.

作者简介

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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