Giovanni Botero’s biopolitical populationism: Rethinking the history of biopower
Philosophy & Social Criticism: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal
Published online on April 17, 2025
Abstract
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The Italian political thinker and polymath Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) was a famous proponent of what is known today as populationism, the idea of maximizing the number of people within a political community. In this article, I claim that Botero’s ...
The Italian political thinker and polymath Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) was a famous proponent of what is known today as populationism, the idea of maximizing the number of people within a political community. In this article, I claim that Botero’s ...