Vidas paralelas : Foucault, Pierre Rivière e Herculine Barbin

• Published in: Tempo social : revista de sociologia da USP Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 233 - 252
• Main Author: PEREIRA ANDRADE, Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: São Paulo Universidade de São Paulo 2007; Universidade de São Paulo - Departamento de Sociologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas; Departamento de Sociologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo
• Subjects: Autobiographical literature; Barbin, Herculine; Foucault, Michel; Riviere, Pierre; SOCIOLOGY; Stigma; Subjectivity; Autobiographies; Subjectivity; Subjetividade; Parallel Lives; Foucault; Vidas paralelas; Autobiografias

Michel Foucault published two autobiographies: one of Pierre Rivière and the other of Herculine Barbin. In this article, I take his to the collected volume Vies Parallèles as a key to explaining how he conceived the two works and what he intended by publishing them. Parallel lives are those whose di...