WALTHER RATHENAU: HIS LIFE AND WORK. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 3 I. FATHER AND SON 5 II. THE WAY OF THE INTELLECT 21 III. SOCIAL INTERLUDE 43 y IV. THE REPUDIATION OF THE INTELLECT 55 V. FRIENDSHIPS 64 VI. THE REALM OF THE SOUL 74 VII. THE PATH TO THE ABYSS 117 VIII. IN DAYS TO COME 169 IX. ISOLATION 222 X. THE NEW FOREIGN POLICY THE FIGHT FOR PEACE 268 XI. THERE IS NO DEATH 34 APPENDIX 365 INDEX TO RATHENAUS WORKS 371 INDEX 373 ILLUSTRATIONS WALTHER RATHENAU IN THE CAR IN WHICH HE WAS ASSASSINATED WALTHER AND ERICH RATHENAU 1 8 WALTHER RATHENAU, FROM THE PORTRAIT BY EDVARD MUNCH 5 2 EMIL RATHENAU 6O THE C BREVIARIUM MYSTICUM 7 WALTHER RATHENAU BEFORE THE WAR IO4 ROOM IN THE SCHLOSS FREIENWALDE .138 WALTHER RATHENAUS MOTHER 3 2 WALTHER RATHENAU