Oxford University Press

Eschatology is the study of the 'last things': death, judgment, the afterlife, and the end of the world. The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology will provide an important critical survey of this diverse body of thought and practice....

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The distinctive concept of the symbol, articulated by such writers as Goethe, Schelling, and Coleridge, is of the utmost significance in the literary, philosophical, and even scientific thought of the Romantic period. This interdisciplinary historical study examines the development of the concept in a jargon-free style that will appeal to a broad...

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The contributors of this volume present an authoritative social psychological account of the Holocaust. This is in keeping with the past 50 years of research into and public interest in genocidal behaviour at both the individual and group levels. Explanatory concepts are developed such as cognitive dissonance, attributional error, and pluralistic...