{"product_id":"i-pierre-riviere-having-slaughtered-my-mother-my-sister-and-my-brother-a-case-of-parricide-in-the-19th-century-9780803268579","title":"I, Pierre Riviére, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michel Foucault | Frank Jellinek\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615348703383,"sku":"9780803268579","price":3143.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780803268579.webp?v=1775100159","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/i-pierre-riviere-having-slaughtered-my-mother-my-sister-and-my-brother-a-case-of-parricide-in-the-19th-century-9780803268579","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}