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“Possessive individualism” as a book category gathers works that examine and debate the idea that individuals are proprietors of their own person and capacities, and that social life is best organized through property, contract, and market exchange. Titles in this category span classic liberal theory and its interpreters, intellectual and legal histories of property and rights, and contemporary analyses of capitalism, freedom, and the state. They probe themes of self-ownership, negative liberty, privatization, commodification, and inequality, alongside critiques from Marxist, feminist, communitarian, ecological, and postcolonial perspectives. The shelf can include both scholarly studies and cultural or literary works that dramatize the tensions between autonomous self-making, possessiveness, and social interdependence.

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