01278nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100003700060245003700097260003200134300003800166520074700204773003200951906001700983942000701000952011301007  c533357d533357260518b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aReviewed by Talmiz Ahamd 960613  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    aBOOK REVIEW   cAR  00102ddc40709408529aIIPAbIIPAd2026-05-18h30(10-12), Oct-Sep, 2025: p.12-13pAR138856r2026-05-18yAR