Georgios Varouxakis
@georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social
Author of "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton University Press, 2025). Professor of the History of Political Thought, Queen Mary University of London.
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 4mo ago🇩🇪 We are thrilled to see The West by @georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social reviewed in the German newspaper @faznet.bsky.social: “Varouxakis’s book offers impressive scholarship and, thanks to the occasional mischievousness, no less pleasurable reading.” Read more:
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"L'Occident s'est toujours défini contre la Russie" : la leçon d'histoire de Georgios Varouxakis
Auteur de "The West", le professeur à l'université Queen Mary montre comment l'idée d'Occident a émergé au XIXe siècle face à la menace russe. Il relativise aussi la brouille actuelle entre les Etats-...
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« L’offensive trumpiste pose un double défi à l’Europe, sécuritaire et idéologique. Le plus dangereux est le second »
CHRONIQUE. L’administration Trump se pose en protectrice de la « civilisation occidentale » et veut démanteler l’Union européenne. Aux démocrates européens de lui contester ce rôle et de livrer ce com...
lemonde.fr
Grateful to see "The West: The History of an Idea" among "best books of 2025" in this weekend'd Financial Times: www.ft.com/content/a7c7...
Best books of 2025: History
Frederick Studemann selects his must-read titles
ft.com
If you can be in Amsterdam on 21-23 November, you may like to join us for the G10 Festival of Ideas in Philosophy and Economis. It will also be livestreamed: Zuiderkerk Amsterdam Please find the programme here : www.g10vandeeconomie.nl
Festival G10 van de economie 2025
Welcome to G10 festival of great ideas on philosophy, science, and art. A unique opportunity to delve into the minds of the world’s leading thinkers. Make the invisible visible by drawing special conn...
g10vandeeconomie.nl
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The concept of ‘the West’ seems to mean anything you like
A hundred years ago, T.S. Eliot wrote to Geoffrey Faber, for whose publishing company he had just started work, complaining: ‘The Defence of the West… is a subject about which everyone thinks he has s...
spectator.co.uk
Good to begin with Poland (though sad it is due to drone attacks): The Moncrieff Show, Newstalk, Ireland, today: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
What is ‘The West’? | Newstalk
Following last night’s shooting down of Russian drones in Polish Airspace, Poland has asked NAT...
newstalk.com
Really enjoyed this interview with The Guardian's Philip Oltermann: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘Europe is the core – America joined as an offshoot’: the historian challenging what ‘the west’ means
Was the ‘western alliance’ dreamt up to further American and British interests? Georgios Varouxakis argues that the idea is older, quintessentially European, and even anti-imperialist
theguardian.com
Really, really enjoying Georgios Varouxakis' forthcoming book 'The West: The History of an Idea' (out @princetonupress.bsky.social July US, September UK). Thoughtful, through book, and also written in wonderfully crisp and clear sentences, too.
