{"product_id":"the-labor-of-job-9780822346340","title":"The Labor of Job","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Old Testament book of Job, the pious Job is made to suffer for no apparent reason. The heart of the story is Job's quest to understand why he must bear, and why God would allow, such misery. This book presents a Marxist interpretation of Job's story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Antonio Negri takes the ideas he developed in reading Spinoza, the Jewish heretic, and brings them to bear on one of the most crucial texts of orthodox Christianity to show how much unrealized potential for radical change persists even within those theoretical formations that seem the most monolithic and reactionary. Negri’s approach prefigures efforts by philosophers such as Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, and Giorgio Agamben to re-read the history of Christian thought against the grain. It also connects to and explicates the language of Christian asceticism that informs \u003ci\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e.”— \u003cb\u003eTimothy S. Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Antonio Negri\u003c\/i\u003e and editor and translator of Antonio Negri’s \u003ci\u003eSubversive Spinoza\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Job regards God, according to Negri, not as judge or father or even as the source of discipline and mediation, but merely as antagonist, the locus of an empty, unjust command. There is no more question of measure—equating sins and punishment or virtues and rewards—that could support a conception of divine justice. But Job is not powerless. . . . According to Negri’s reading he stands before God angry, indignant, unrepentant, and rebellious.”—from the foreword by \u003cb\u003eMichael Hardt\u003c\/b\u003e, co-author, with Antonio Negri, of \u003ci\u003eEmpire \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMultitude\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book of Job is the first (and, in many ways, still unsurpassed) exemplary case of the critique of ideology, teaching us how to resist legitimizing our misfortunes with any kind of ‘deeper meaning’––and who is more suitable to actualize this book for our times as Antoni Negri? In his hands, The book of Job turns into a revolutionary text, into a true manual of resistance.”—\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Creation beyond Measure \/ Michael Hardt vii\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the 2002 Edition xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Difference of Job 5\u003cbr\u003e 2. Of the Absoluteness of the Contingent 18\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Adversary and the Avenger 31\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Chaos of Being 48\u003cbr\u003e 5. The \u003ci\u003eDispositif\u003c\/i\u003e of the Messiah 63\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Constitution of Power 79\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ethics as Creation 95\u003cbr\u003e Commentary: Negri, Job, and the Bible \/ Roland Boer 109\u003cbr\u003e Bibliographical Appendix 129\u003cbr\u003e Index 133","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406057906519,"sku":"9780822346340","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822346340.jpg?v=1730494388","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-labor-of-job-9780822346340","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}