Critical Essays on Contemporary European Culture and Society

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Contents: Ursula E. Beitter: Introduction - Steve Watson: England, Who's England? - Roberto E. Campo: The Oriental 'Other' and French Self-Fashioning from Turoldus to Camus - Phil Cox: The New Europe's New University: Academic Freedom and 'World Citizen' Values - Dinah Dodds: German Unification and East German Youth: Ten Years after the Wall - Denise Egea-Kuehne: The Challenge of Languages and Democratic Education in the European Union - Barbara Fischer: Paths to Integration: Learning from Texts from the Periphery - David A. Freeman: Nietzsche's Holism: A Paradigm for Integration - Sharon Hampel/Seth Ward: Milton, Selden, and Hebraic Sources for the Modernizing of European Law: The Case of Divorce - Barbara Lekatsas: Ancient Greece and Modern Feminism - Michele Lemettais: Multiculturalism: A French Possibility in a Diverse Europe? - David W. Lovell: Multiculturalism and the New Europe - Michael McAnear: Perceptions of Austria: Modeling Anti-Foreigner Sentiment? - Erin E. Mountz/Edward J. Chute: Tunc et Nunc: Christianity and the Calendar at the Crossroads of Time - Gary Overvold: The Concept of Europe and the Enlightenment Ideal: Husserl and the Contemporary Debate - Elke Segelcke: Experiences of 'Otherness': Writing National and Multicultural Identities in Postunification Germany - Cristiana Senigaglia: Identity and Difference: The Claim of the &la" Threatened Minorities - Mair Verthuy: France as a Microcosm of Post-Schengen Europe. Reflections on the New Literature - Friederike von Schwerin-High: Constructions of Alterity in Doris Dorrie's Book Bin ich schon and in Her Film Bin ich schon - William Walker: The Aftermath of German Unification: The Issue of Complicity andSelf-vindication in the Memoirs of Hermann Kant - Mohamed Yamba: The Integration of Immigrant Populations in the European Union.