Introduction
1. Does the family exist?: Structures and Practices of Kinship
2. Patrons of the State: Division of the Public and the Private
3. Myth of "the Family": Biological, Social, Economic
4. The Political Theology of the Family: Divine, Romantic, Algorithmic
5. Extraction, Intimacy, and Kinship
Biography
Hannes Charen is an adjunct assistant professor of philosophy, aesthetics, and critical theory at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
"A powerful critique of the ideology of the family in the neo-liberal state, offering inspiring alternatives of active expansion of conceptions of care and kinship."
Jeffrey Champlin, Bard College Berlin
"The primary new contribution of the book to this old debate over the justice of the family is in Charen’s positing of kinship as a substitute for the conventional conception of the family. … [The] book opens a door to the imagination of such alternatives."
Rita Koganzon, Perspectives on Politics
