Max Whyte is a Collegiate Assistant Professor and a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago. His principal research interests lie in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European intellectual history and political thought, particularly fascism, Marxism, and German philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2007, with a thesis on the relationship between philosophy and politics in the Third Reich. Alongside preparing this text for publication, he is currently beginning a major new research project on the history of the 'National Bolshevist' movement in inter-war Germany. In 2009 he was awarded the George L. Mosse Prize by the Journal of Contemporary History for an article on the reception of Nietzsche's thought in Nazi Germany.