This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of biopolitics and the connection between this and the technology of sovereign power, which disregards or eliminates life.

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.

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