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The story of Pierre Rivière: the horrible patricide of the nineteenth century that Michel Foucault told
One of the stories told by the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (Poitiers, 1926) is one that speaks of a notorious patricide that shook France in 1835. During a seminar at the College de ...
‘A dark masterpiece’: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish at 50
French publication of Michel Foucault’s dark masterpiece, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. A book of vast historical scope, written with lyrical intensity, it is one of the most ...