The Labor of Job: The Biblical Text as a Parable of Human Labor. By Antonio Negri. Trans. by Matteo Mandarini
Central to Negri’s ‘intervention’ of the Book of Job (p. 4) is the critical function of both human pain and human power in bringing about human redemption. To great benefit, the author brings his own personal pain to bear on the ancient masterpiece. Negri, an Italian Marxist political philosopher, b...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 201-203 |
| Review of: | The labor of Job (Durham [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 2009) (Jones, Scott C.)
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| Summary: | Central to Negri’s ‘intervention’ of the Book of Job (p. 4) is the critical function of both human pain and human power in bringing about human redemption. To great benefit, the author brings his own personal pain to bear on the ancient masterpiece. Negri, an Italian Marxist political philosopher, began writing Il lavoro di Giobbe while a political prisoner in Italy in the early 1980s and finished it during his exile in France. He views Job much as he views himself: one who has suffered from the imposition of power by political structures based on a system of measure. He treats Job as ‘the parabola of modernity’ (p. 103), finding that both Job and the contemporary world witness ‘the collapse of all horizons of value’ (p. 13). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt046 |