{"product_id":"9780803268579","title":"I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century","description":"\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNP - Nebraska Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016157544688,"sku":"9780803268579","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803268579_p0.jpg?v=1763727172","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803268579","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}