Robert Garner and Yewande Okuleye, The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights

This is an interesting book about an interesting group of people. The question is to whom might it be interesting and why? The claim is that a small group of postgraduates, which included Peter Singer, came together at the University of Oxford in the late 1960s and had a formative impact on the development of the discourses and disciplines of animal rights. Certainly, they collectively published Animals, Men and Morals, which is probably the first modern book-length text on the topic. If for no other reason for that they deserve to be better known. Having said that, I had to question whether there is a really a book in them. What feels like a great deal of space is devoted to methodological considerations and, in particular, to an exposition of theories of friendship group and other collaborative entities largely developed by Michael Farrell. I am sure that this is

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