1st Edition
Jean Bodin and Biopolitics Before the Biopolitical Era
1. Introduction
2. Biopolitics and Sovereign Power
3. Jean Bodin and Politics: Theory and Practice
4. Bodin’s Population Theory and Populationism
5. Censors, Censuses, and Biopolitics
6. The Political Nature of Climates and Temperaments
7. The Biopolitical Aspects of a Demonology
8. Rethinking Sovereignty and Biopolitics with Bodin
9. Conclusions
Biography
Samuel Lindholm is a political scientist working as a postdoctoral grant researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Currently, he focuses on investigating the biopolitical elements in early modern political thought and formulating clearer demarcations for the concepts of biopolitics, sovereign power, and governmentality.
"Jean Bodin and Biopolitics Before the Biopolitical Era is a highly readable and impressive work of scholarly erudition that presents the reader with an original and compelling interpretation of the history of biopolitics and sovereignty. I would recommend it to anyone interested in biopolitics and the history of political thought."
Professor Mika Ojakangas, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
