Negri / Davis / Goodchild The Labor of Job

The Biblical Text as a Parable of Human Labor
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9201-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 164 Seiten

Reihe: New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology

A reinterpretation of the biblical story that envisions God as no longer a remote and transcendent judge but as a humanized redeemer or avenger, an activist, and revolutionary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Negri, Antonio

Davis, Creston

Goodchild, Philip

Surin, Kenneth

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mandarini, Matteo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Creation beyond Measure / Michael Hardt vii

Preface to the 2002 Edition xv

Introduction 1

1. The Difference of Job 5

2. Of the Absoluteness of the Contingent 18

3. The Adversary and the Avenger 31

4. The Chaos of Being 48

5. The Dispositif of the Messiah 63

6. The Constitution of Power 79

7. Ethics as Creation 95

Commentary: Negri, Job, and the Bible / Roland Boer 109

Bibliographical Appendix 129

Index 133

Über Autor(innen)

Antonio Negri was formerly professor of political science at the universities of Padua and Paris VIII. He is the author of many books. Those available in English include Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State and The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza’s Metaphysics and Politics. Matteo Mandarini is a lecturer in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. He has translated books and essays by Negri including Time for Revolution. Michael Hardt is Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University. He and Negri are the authors of Multitude and Empire. Roland Boer is Research Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes, also published by Duke University Press.