"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."--Slavoj Zižek

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

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.