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 signalling 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...