Danilo Scholtz is Max Weber Fellow at the EUI. He works on the history of twentieth-century political thought and culture, most recently the relationship between research in ethnography, psychoanalysis and geography in changing conceptions of the state in twentieth-century European thought, from Kojève to Deleuze and Guattari. He also writes essays for a broader public on political, cultural and literary subjects, and was awarded the prestigious 2019 Heinrich Mann Prize by the Berlin Academy of Arts.