01067nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100003000041245003700071260003200108300003800140520074700178773003200925260518b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aReviewed by Talmiz Ahamd   aHow the West has defined itself   aBIBLIO: A Review of Books    a30(10-12), Oct-Sep, 2025: p.12-13  a The west: The history of an idea by Georgios Varousxakis Princeton university press, Princeton, 2025, 491pp. Rs.3031, ISBN9780691177182. Reproduced  


This books is an important contribution in studies relating to the idea of “the West”. However, amidst the discussions on this subject over two centuries, Variuxakis places himself as detached observers. His prose is dry and factual, even us be resists every opportunity to join the cut and thrust of discussions of the learned protagonists he is writing about and share with us what he thinks about ether  assertions. He shields himself by pointing out that the books “neither needs nor aspires to present a balance sheet of what “it the West has done in history”. Reproduced     aBIBLIO: A Review of Books