Legal utopia of Walter Rathenau
Jurisprudence is not limited just to application of law. Legal discussions were enriched by the renowned lawyers and representatives of the intellectual history, who have made a significant input into the development of law of their time. Among them, there was Walter Rathenau, who lived and worked at the time of the Weimar Republic, and who later held the position of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, while not being sufficiently appreciated in this position. The article contains the first ever attempt to analyze the works of this great thinker and politician in order to discuss the legal issues, which did not lose their relevance with time, and to explain how they are presented in the works of W. Rathenau. It then becomes obvious that his life and death, his work as a politician and a writer concern various problems of philosophy of law. It is also obvious how great the role of this thinker, who was influence by Nietzsche, and who, in turn had a great influence (even if a negative one) upon other great thinkers, such as F.A. von Hayek.