Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: We Were Promised Jet Packs -- 1 Universals and Foundations -- Universality of Human Rights -- Culture and Human Rights -- (Anti) Foundations -- The Current System -- The Origin of Human Rights -- Humane Models -- The Human -- Conclusion -- 2 The Blinded Body -- Bodies of Data -- The Fields -- Breaching, Balancing and the Monster -- Particular Human Rights -- The Singular Human Right -- Frames -- Conclusion -- 3 The Body -- Real Bodies -- The Absent Body -- Searching for the Soul of the Body -- Conclusion -- 4 The Body, the Index and the Other -- The Body and the World -- Before the Zero Institution -- This is My Body -- The Body as Index -- Is and Ought -- Bodies in the World: Climate Theory -- Homo Sacer -- The Other -- 5 The Living Body -- Water as a Human Right -- Plachimada: People and Property -- Thirsty Corporations -- Money and Sense -- The Public Trust -- Roman Law -- Anticipatory Negligence -- Trust and the Political Order -- A Coda -- 6 The Embodied Mind -- The Body and the Mind -- Metaphor -- Thought, Feeling and Space -- What is Universal? -- Bad Biology -- Step Outside -- 7 The Linguistic Body -- Natural Semantic Metalanguage -- NSM and Human Rights -- Dehumanisation -- What Makes Us Inhuman? -- Root Causes -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Three Rights and Three Frames -- References -- Index.