《I, Pierre Riviére, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother》是University of Nebraska Press出版的圖書，作者是Michel Foucault (editor)
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780803268579
- 作者：Michel Foucault (editor)
- 出版社：University of Nebraska Press
- 出版時間：1982年12月1日
- 頁數：288
- 定價：USD 20.00
- 裝幀：Paperback
- 原作品：Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère
內容簡介
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. 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...(展開全部) 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.
