Dr. Samuel Lindholm, DSocSc, is a senior lecturer (temporary) in political science and the chair of the Finnish Political Science Association. His doctoral dissertation (2022) and Routledge monograph Jean Bodin and Biopolitics Before the Biopolitical Era (2024) focus on the French political philosopher and jurist Jean Bodin’s political works and biopolitics, or the optimizing and maximizing governing of life and populations. Currently, his work concentrates on the theory and history of biopolitics from a broader perspective. He is interested in clarifying and demarcating the concept’s definition and helping rethink the discussion on how life was governed in the past, especially in the early modern context.
Biopolitics, biopower, governmentality, sovereign power, political theory, political thought, political philosophy, history of philosophy, early modern political thought (incl. Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, Tommaso Campanella, Martin Luther, early modern utopian authors), continental philosophy (incl. Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito).
