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# I, Pierre Riviére, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century ↠ PDF Download by * Brand: University of Nebraska Press eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. I, Pierre Riviére, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century Against Interpetation: The Bald Man Pleads Indecision Okay, the reason why Foucault did not interpet the reasoning behind the crime was because the issue of guilt or innocence was not his topic. He was more interested in how people treat crimes and approach the issue of criminality.It is not Riviere who is at trial *again* in Foucault's book, but rather it is a trial described, which could be any trial. A crime after the fact is a story, a memory for those who were involved, but we all become in
| Title | : | I, Pierre Riviére, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (564 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803268572 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-08 |
| Language | : | English |
A glimpse into the birth of the psychiatrization of law, the medicalization of crime, and the therapeutization of justice."—Thomas S. Szasz, M.D.. "A spell-binding account—not only of the murder of a family by a 'madman,' but also the murder of free will and responsibility by the mad-doctors
Against Interpetation: The Bald Man Pleads Indecision Okay, the reason why Foucault did not interpet the reasoning behind the crime was because the issue of guilt or innocence was not his topic. He was more interested in how people treat crimes and approach the issue of criminality.It is not Riviere who is at trial *again* in Foucault's book, but rather it is a trial described, which could be any trial. A crime after the fact is a story, a memory for those who were involved, but we all become involved in an event as if it were a story we have heard before. What other way to approach a m. A Customer said Fascinating Story--Not Enough Analysis. The story of the young Frenchman who murdered his family is a fascinating piece of documentary work by Foucault and his student assistants. However, I would have liked to know much more about how they interpret this "unusual" behavior.. "A fascinating and enlighting read." according to A Customer. First don't be mislead Foucault has a paper in this work, but acts as editor not author. Having said that, it is another great work by Foucault.
and Rivière's memoir. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale. To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. 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. 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. Medical authority was challenging law, branches of government were vying. The Rivière case, he points out, occurred at a
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