Aaron Gross

Densely academic. The author's primary aim is to carefully examine the particulars of the findings of and reactions to an undercover investigation at a Jewish kosher abattoir (slaughterhouse), which he takes as the event, and then to analyze how – as a community of academics – we theorize about human in relation to animal. However, the author is not going to tell you any of that. He just dives into his thinking and describing and analyzing without any explanation of why this event alone should be a defining moment in the dialectic between religion and the animal. The text is thick with references to all manner of theoreticians, but it lacks cohesion. There's no clear thesis or conclusion that the author wants to point out or persuade us of.… (mehr)