Hegelian reflections on the idea of nuclear war

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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.