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To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivi?re 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 Rivi?re's memoir. The Rivi?re 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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Author

Michel Foucault

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803268579

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Social Science, Poetry, Philosophy

Rating

3.82 / 5 (346 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13