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The New Europe at the Crossroads: Europe's Classical Heritage in the Twenty-first Century consists of a selection of essays presented at the New Europe at the Crossroads conferences in York, England (1998), and at Teikyo University in Berlin, Germany (1999). The diverse contributions from scholars in the fields of education, philosophy, political science, modern languages, literature, physics, theology, and economics show that a truly united Europe must remain a distant utopia as long as cultural, religious, and ethnic identities are a cause for repression, discrimination, and strife. The essays go beyond the usual political and economic discussions associated with a united Europe. They broach the question of Europe's identity in the twenty-first century and raise the specter of a Europe that continues to be divided by ethnic differences, cultural intolerance, and an inability to come to terms with its others.

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The Editor: Ursula E. Beitter is Associate Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages at Loyola College in Maryland. She received her doctorate at New York University. She has published on fairy tales and foreign language pedagogy and is the editor of the Loyola College in Maryland Berlin Literature Seminar: Contemporary German Literature and Society Series (Peter Lang). Dr. Beitter organizes Loyola College's annual The New Europe at the Crossroads conference, which takes place in England or Germany, and has been the director of the Loyola College Berlin Literature Seminar since 1987.

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