Hegelian reflections on the idea of nuclear war: Dialectical thinking and the dialectic of mankind

The idea of nuclear war leads to the queston of what is ultimately at stake for mankind. The book attempts to demonstrate how Hegelian thinking is a way into this question. It provides a method to traverse the gulf between the history of philosophy and the most urgent problem faced by the mankind at present - nuclear war. Hegelian dialectic provides a manner of reflection which Krombach aims to demonstrate overcomes the fragmentation of empiracal sciences and allows humans to comprehend the intellectual implications of a possible nuclear war and its consequences.