{"product_id":"i-pierre-riviere-having-slaughtered-my-mother-my-sister-and-my-brother-a-case-of-parricide-in-the-19th-century","title":"I, Pierre Riviére, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eI, Pierre Riviére, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMichel Foucault\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780803268579\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Nebraska Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1982\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eTo 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. \u003cp\u003eMichel Foucault, author of \u003ci\u003eMadness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"I, Pierre Riviére, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century | Michel Foucault | Paperback | 9780803268579 | Used: Good | Back Stacks I 1771258","offer_id":49550951809176,"sku":"1771258","price":174.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91JWYapzvLL.jpg?v=1784909208","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/i-pierre-riviere-having-slaughtered-my-mother-my-sister-and-my-brother-a-case-of-parricide-in-the-19th-century","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}