Intimations of democratic impatience: The Book of Job
This article challenges democratic theorists' disregard for democratic impatience by showing that the Book of Job not only defends impatience but that it intimates the merits of democratic impatience. Job is impatient along four dimensions that should speak to democratic theorists: he refuses t...
| Publié dans: | Political theology |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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Political theology
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Bibel. Ijob
/ Ijob, Personnage biblique
/ Ungeduld
/ Démocratie
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| Classifications IxTheo: | HB Ancien Testament NCD Éthique et politique |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Patience
B Democracy B impatience B Job B Job's wife |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | This article challenges democratic theorists' disregard for democratic impatience by showing that the Book of Job not only defends impatience but that it intimates the merits of democratic impatience. Job is impatient along four dimensions that should speak to democratic theorists: he refuses to suffer, identifies his suffering as unjust, seeks to hold arbitrary power accountable, and recognizes patience's irrationality in the face of injustice. Critically, I demonstrate that Job remains impatient in his mind, and thus does not abandon impatience - not even in an epilogue designed to stifle his impatient voice. While Job's impatience is justified, it is not yet democratic, for it reneges on broader democratic claims, is not shared, and is undermined by his social privilege. I thus turn to Job's wife - who is Everywoman both in a feminist and more generally democratic sense - to more fully develop a concept of democratic impatience. |
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| Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 5-6 August-September 2018" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1440156 |