The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of
Enlightenment until today. The Book of Job: Aesthetics Ethics and Hermeneutics offers new
perspectives on the ways in which Job's response to disaster has become an aesthetic and
ethical touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events. This volume begins with an
exploration of questions such as the tragic and ironic bent of the Book of Job Job as mourner
and the Joban body in pain and ends with a consideration of Joban works by notable writers -
from Melville and Kafka through Joseph Roth Zach Levin and Philip Roth.
