Table of Contents
List of Tables ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: We Were Promised Jet Packs 1
1 Universal and Foundations 7
Universality of Human Rights 10
Culture and Human Rights 13
(Anti) Foundations 18
The Current System 25
The Origin of Human Rights 30
Humane Models 33
The Human 38
Conclusion 41
2 The Blinded Body 43
Bodies of Data 45
The Fields 46
Breaching, Balancing and the Monster 51
Particular Human Rights 59
The Singular Human Right 60
Frames 64
Conclusion 66
3 The Body 67
Real Bodies 69
The Absent Body 74
Searching for the Soul of the Body 78
Conclusion 83
4 The Body, the Index and the Other 87
The Body and the World 88
Before the Zero Institution 90
This is My Body 92
The Body as Index 95
Is and Ought 99
Bodies in the World: Climate Theory 102
Homo Sacer 105
The Other 108
5 The Living Body 115
Water as a Human Right 117
Plachimada: People and Property 119
Thirsty Corporations 124
Money and Sense 125
The Public Trust 130
Roman Law 133
Anticipatory Negligence 135
Trust and the Political Order 137
A Coda 139
6 The Embodied Mind 141
The Body and the Mind 143
Metaphor 145
Thought, Feeling and Space 147
What is Universal? 151
Bad Biology 155
Step Outside 158
7 The Linguistic Body 163
Natural Semantic Metalanguage 164
NSM and Human Rights 172
Dehumanisation 177
What Makes Us Inhuman? 180
Root Causes 192
Conclusion 194
Conclusion: Three Rights and Three Frames 197
References 201
Index 219