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The West

The History of an Idea

by Georgios Varouxakis

First published 2025 · debut

Cover of The West

Reception

  1. 2026
    London Review of Books

    Reviewed by Thomas Meaney, 24 September

  • London Review of Books · 24 September 2026

    Ranks of Humanity

    The West can play at being universal, seeing itself as the only ‘civilisation’ and basing itself on metrics of modernisation or democratisation or simply wealth, but if the core appears threatened it snaps back to its original, exclusive formation, as the superior civilisation among several…

    By Thomas Meaney

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About the author

Georgios Varouxakis, born 1966.

Catalogue record

Princeton University Press, 2025 · 488 pages

Publisher
Princeton University Press, 2025
Pages
488
ISBN
978-0-691-17718-2 +1
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Publisher
Princeton University Press, 2025
Pages
488
ISBNs
  • 978-0-691-17718-2
  • 978-0-691-27236-8
Editions
  • Princeton University Press, 2025, 488 pages 978-0-691-27236-8
  • Princeton University Press, 2025, 488 pages 978-0-691-17718-2
Author
Varouxakis, Georgios, 1966–
Statement
The West : The History of an Idea / Georgios Varouxakis.
Records
Open Library Wikidata

Subjects

  • 2020s

Catalogue data checked 3 October 2026