Abstract

More of Walther Rathenau

The article presents information on two books "Walther Rathenau, Nachgelassene Schriften," by S. Fischer, and "Ausgewählte Reden von Waither Rathenau," edited by James Taft Hatfield. These posthumous papers by Rathenan, either reprinted from various magazines between 1898 and 1921 or now published for the first time, are a welcome supplement to his collected works. They again strikingly show the amazing fecundity of his mind, the wide sweep of his imagination, the bold power of his will. They again bring out the extraordinary complexity of his nature the combination in him of passionate interest in questions of industrial organization and matters of the soul, of economics and metaphysics of religion and art, of fatherland and humanity.