The West: The History of an Idea

by Georgios Varouxakis

A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West

How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners" begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069117718X
• ISBN13: 9780691177182
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 488 Pages