Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- A Note on Citation Form -- PART ONE The First Expansionary Era -- CHAPTER 1 The Prehistory of Rights -- Mediaeval Europe, and the Possibility of Poverty -- Third-Century India and Tolerance -- Two Expansionary Periods of Rights Rhetoric -- CHAPTER 2 The Rights of Man -- Hugo Grotius -- Thomas Hobbes -- Samuel Pufendorf -- John Locke -- The American Declaration of Independence -- Immanuel Kant -- William Paley -- The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen -- CHAPTER 3 "Mischievous Nonsense"? -- Edmund Burke -- William Godwin -- Jeremy Bentham -- Bentham's Negative Critique of Natural Rights -- Bentham's Positive Account of Legal Rights -- CHAPTER 4 The Nineteenth Century -- The Utilitarian Formula: Rights as Rules -- John Austin -- John Stuart Mill -- American Developments: From The Bill of Rights to the Abolition of Slavery -- Amendment IX -- American Developments: From The Civil War Amendments to the Right of Privacy -- CHAPTER 5 The Conceptual Neighborhood of Rights -- Are Moral Rights "Hohfeldian"? -- Duty "Not to" or "Duty that"? -- Legal "Interference" versus Moral -- Do Hohfeldian Duties Entail Rights? -- Group Rights versus Individual Rights -- PART TWO The Second Expansionary Era -- CHAPTER 6 The Universal Declaration, and a Revolt Against Utilitarianism -- The Post-War Resurrection of Moral and Political Philosophy -- CHAPTER 7 The Nature of Rights -- Interest Theory of Legal Rights -- Choice Theory of Legal Rights -- From Legal to Moral Rights -- CHAPTER 8 A Right to Do Wrong? -- The "Protected-Permission" Conception -- The "Protected-Choice" Conception -- The Function of Rights: Recognitional, or Reaction-Constraining? -- CHAPTER 9 The Pressure of Consequentialism -- Are Rights "Trumps"? Thresholds and Defeasibility.

The Neo-Godwinian, Consequentialist Challenge to the Protected-Permission Model -- Separate Lives and "Agent-Relative" Reasons -- "Exclusionary" Reasons -- CHAPTER 10 What Is Interference? -- Are Rights of Noninterference Primary? General and Special Rights -- Does the Primacy of Autonomy Assure the Primacy of Rights of Noninterference? -- Is Imposing Costs Always Interference? -- Noninterference Rights as Standing and Proportionality Norms -- CHAPTER 11 The Future of Rights -- Second-Generation Rights, and Third-… ? -- Minimalism About Human Rights -- Is Minimalism About Human Rights Justified? -- Is Allowing Costs Ever Interference? -- What's So Special About Humans? -- Whose Human Rights? -- CHAPTER Conclusion -- Bibliographical Notes -- Chapter 1 The Prehistory of Rights -- Chapter 2 The Rights of Man: The Enlightenment -- Chapter 3 "Mischievous Nonsense"? -- Chapter 4 The Nineteenth Century: Consolidation and Retrenchment -- Chapter 5 The Conceptual Neighborhood of Rights: Wesley Newcombe Hohfeld -- Chapter 6 The Universal Declaration, and a Revolt Against Utilitarianism -- Chapter 7 The Nature of Rights: "Choice" Theory and "Interest" Theory -- Chapter 8 A Right to Do Wrong? Two Conceptions of Moral Rights -- Chapter 9 The Pressure of Consequentialism -- Chapter 10 What Is Interference? -- Chapter 11 The Future of Rights -- References -- Index.