Pi
Prologue: Premises and Problems
A Starting Point. Getting Rich in a Chinese Village
Questions, Themes, and Arguments
Legitimizing the Inner Person with Property
Chapter 1: Studying Person and Property in Global Perspective
Remarrying Politics and Psychology
Asserting the Interior Life of the Individual
Justifying the Individual's Accumulation of Property
Pursuing Utopian Social Progress
Encouraging Widespread Socioeconomic Mobility
Chapter 2: Force Fields of Persons and Properties
The Political Economics of Psychology
Person: The Axis of Value
Psyche: The Inner Person as Property
Adornment: Decorating the Person with Property
Personalty: Personal Property
Assets: Intangible Property
Applying the Approach in a Chinese Village
Chapter 3: The Emergence of the Propertied Self
The Economic Revolutions of Modernity
Capitalism: A Person—Property Regime of the Autonomous Self
The Bourgeois Impulse
The Propertied Self as the Archetypal Bourgeois Person
The Techno-Scientific Encouragement of the Propertied Self
Chapter 4: Early Responses to the Rise of the Propertied Self
The Emancipatory Ethos, Governance, and Interiority
The Emergence of Property-in-Rights
Early Notions of Property
The Purpose of Property
Person, Personalty, and Property
Chapter 5: Consumutopia: Psychology, Property and Progress
The Interiorization of Consumerist Desire
Consumerist Utopias of Psyche
Managing Person—Property Regimes through Sumptuary Regulations
Reflexivity and Owning One's Self
Chapter 6: Reacting to the Propertied Self: Inventing the Future
The Liberalist Impulse
Politics as the Pursuit of Heaven on Earth
Evolutions as Reactions to the Propertied Self
Nineteenth-Century Centrist Liberalism
Chapter 7: Legitimi)ing and Stabili)ing the Propertied Self
Liberty: The Individual as Basic Unit
Socialism as a Manifestation of Liberality
Welfare as a Manifestation of Liberality
Three Types of Welfare Regimes
Three Capitalisms
Chapter 8: The Propertied Self in Late Modern Politics
The Propertied Self Writ Large
The National State as Sovereign Individual
The Politics of Interiorization
Person—Property Regimes of Late Modern Politics
The Interiorization of Identity
Ethical Concerns: The Self as God and the Propertied Self Triumphant
Epilogue: Lessons from History?
How the Allure of Economic Liberties Challenges Political Liberties
Building the Propertied Self from the Right or Left?
Falling towards the Future?
Appendices
1. Research on Property and Possession
2. The Evolution of Property
3. The Continuum of Person—Property—Polity
4. Political Formatting of the Propertied Self
References
Index
