The West : The History of an Idea.
Varouxakis, Georgios.
The West : The History of an Idea. - 1st ed. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025. ©2025. - 1 online resource (513 pages)
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: 'The West' -- I. The West, 'from Plato to NATO'? -- II. A Russian Import, or a Substitute for 'Whiteness'? -- III. A Gradual Growth, Consummated in Paris, rue Monsieur-le-Prince -- IV. This Book -- 2. 'The West' as an Alternative to 'Europe' in the Nineteenth Century -- I. Heeren of Göttingen -- II. From North-South to East-West: Mme de Staël and the View of Russia -- III. Les Deux Mondes: Saint-Simon and the Saint-Simonians -- IV. Greeks Bearing Gifts? Or 'la garantie véritable de l'Occident contre l'Orient' -- V. Fear of Russia Intensifies: 'the West' Must Unite... -- VI. The East of Xerxes or the East of Christ? -- VII. The Unlikely Godfather: Auguste Comte and the Substitution of Occident for Europe -- VIII. Comte's Political Project: The 'Republic of the West' -- IX. From L'Europe to L'Occident -- X. Positivist Contributions after Comte -- XI. Conclusion -- 3. Insular Britain Joins the West -- I. Insular Britain versus Continental Occident -- II. Early Uses of 'West' and 'Western' -- III. 'Europe' and 'the Liberties of Europe' -- IV. Different 'Others': 'The West' versus 'Northern'/'Eastern' Russia, 'Oriental' Jews, and Turkey -- V. Edward Freeman and the 'Eternal' Struggle of 'the West' against 'the East' -- VI. The British Comtists' West -- VII. The Novelty of 'the West' in English -- VIII. The Wages of Foreign Influence -- IX. Conclusion -- 4. Ex Germaniae lux? How Did the Idea of 'the West' Reach America? -- I. Heidelberg, Göttingen, Halle, Berlin... -- II. From Franz Lieber to Francis Lieber -- III. The Need 'to have a distinct name for the indicated group': 'Western'? 'Occidental'? 'Cis-Caucasian'? -- IV. 'Orientalism' and 'Occidentalism': America, 1853 -- V. European Immigrants and Eastern Questions. VI. Occidentalism versus Orientalism (and Yet Another German-Educated American Academic) -- VII. 'The Meeting of the Orient and the Occident, Long Foreshadowed': Academic Political Science and 'Western Civilisation' -- VIII. Afro-American Radicalism versus Russian Menace? (And Japan as a Beacon of Hope) -- IX. Civilisations and Civilisationism: Alexander Crummell, William H. Ferris, W.E.B. Du Bois -- X. Conclusion -- 5. The War of Words: 'Western Civilisation' and 'the West', 1914-1919 -- I. 'We shall carry on this war to the end as a Kulturvolk': German Professors and 'the Civilised World' -- II. 'We are Europeans': America 'taken back into the fold' -- III. 'If not civilization, at least our civilization is at stake': The West according to 'the Zelig of twentieth-century politics' -- IV. Rabindranath Tagore on East and West -- V. Black America as the 'acid test for Occidental Civilization' -- VI. Thomas Mann's 'monstrous article' -- and His Reflections -- VII. Conclusion -- 6. From 'Decline of the West' to 'Defence of the West': The Interwar Years and the Crisis of Civilisation -- I. The Spengler Affair: The Decline of the West -- II. From Harlem to Paris (via Berlin, Munich, and Luxor): Black Intellectuals and Western Civilisation -- III. 'Nordic' Supremacists and Responses to Them -- IV. The Massis Affair: Defence of the West -- V. German East-Mania after the Great War -- VI. Anglo-American Responses to Massis -- VII. 'Bis auf weiteres möchten wir Abendländer bleiben': German-Speaking Reactions to Massis, and Alternative Visions for Germany -- VIII. More Criticism of Massis -- and Alternatives for Jazz-Age France -- IX. 'A new West, [. . .] by an act of Further Creation' -- X. The Sufi Convert on East and West: René Guénon/Abd al-Wa.id Ya.yá and Traditionalism -- XI. Defence of the West Continued: the 1930s and the Clouds of War. XII. Conclusion -- 7. The Second World War and Ideas of 'the West' -- I. 'Western Civilization Will be Saved.' Or Was 'the Prevailing Education [. . .] Destroying it'? -- II. A 'tear for France' -- III. Guerres Franco-Françaises Under Occupation: Civilisation Européenne or Civilisation Occidentale? -- IV. Europe between East and Extreme West: from Simone Weil to Albert Camus -- V. 'Pour l'alliance de l'Occident', or a 'Latin Empire'? Raymond Aron's versus Alexandre Kojève's Postwar Order -- VI. The Atlantic Community -- VII. When Peoples Meet: Alain Locke and 'the Achilles of the West' -- VIII. Conclusion -- 8. The Cold War and Its 'Wests' -- I. Lippmann's 'natural allies' and the Atlantic Community -- II. A 'spiritual consolidation of western civilization': Made in Britain -- III. 'It is twenty-five o'clock': Europe 'between the barbarians of the East and those of the West'? -- IV. '[T]o swing the spiritual balance in favor of the US': Henry Kissinger's ' "Western" or "Occidental" civilization' -- V. The Gospel(s) according to Arnold Toynbee -- VI. 'Freunde, die Freiheit hat die Offensive ergriffen!' Those Who Said, 'I Choose the West' -- VII. Hannah Arendt and 'the famous "decline of the West"' -- VIII. Return to the Principles of Western Civilisation: Athens and Jerusalem -- IX. The 'true Westerner' par excellence: Raymond Aron's Cold War -- X. 'Last call [. . .] to the moral conscience of the West': Richard Wright, Empathetic Westerner 'ahead of the West' -- XI. The 'vitality of the so-transgressed Western ideals': James Baldwin's Parisian Encounters -- XII. 'Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.' -- XIII. Cultural versus Political West: Milan Kundera's and Czeslaw Milosz's 'Kidnapped West' -- XIV. Post-mortem: Victorious America Conquered by Germania capta? -- XV. Conclusion -- 9. What Is 'the West' after the Cold War?. I. 'The Triumph of the West, of the Western idea' according to Francis Fukuyama -- II. Professor Schlesinger's Reflections on a Multicultural Society -- III. Trotskyite (Critical) Defence of the West: Cornelius Castoriadis -- IV. 'The West Unique, Not Universal': Samuel Huntington and 'the Clash of Civilizations' -- V. '[A]uf die Seite des Westens': Jürgen Habermas, Heinrich August Winkler and the Western Wertegemeinschaft -- VI. American Anticivilisation versus All Civilisations? Huntingtonism after Huntington -- VII. A Tale of Three Speeches: Who Spoke Better in Warsaw-Bush or Trump? -- VIII. The End of the West, version Michel Houellebecq -- IX. Conclusion: What 'West' for the Post-Post-Cold War Era? -- 10. Conclusion: Words, Ideas, and Why They Matter -- I. Alternatives at the Gates? -- II. '[O]nly something which has no history can be defined' -- III. Why Does Any of This Matter? -- IV. Classicists Bearing Gifts? -- V. What Is To Be Done? -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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The West : The History of an Idea. - 1st ed. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025. ©2025. - 1 online resource (513 pages)
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: 'The West' -- I. The West, 'from Plato to NATO'? -- II. A Russian Import, or a Substitute for 'Whiteness'? -- III. A Gradual Growth, Consummated in Paris, rue Monsieur-le-Prince -- IV. This Book -- 2. 'The West' as an Alternative to 'Europe' in the Nineteenth Century -- I. Heeren of Göttingen -- II. From North-South to East-West: Mme de Staël and the View of Russia -- III. Les Deux Mondes: Saint-Simon and the Saint-Simonians -- IV. Greeks Bearing Gifts? Or 'la garantie véritable de l'Occident contre l'Orient' -- V. Fear of Russia Intensifies: 'the West' Must Unite... -- VI. The East of Xerxes or the East of Christ? -- VII. The Unlikely Godfather: Auguste Comte and the Substitution of Occident for Europe -- VIII. Comte's Political Project: The 'Republic of the West' -- IX. From L'Europe to L'Occident -- X. Positivist Contributions after Comte -- XI. Conclusion -- 3. Insular Britain Joins the West -- I. Insular Britain versus Continental Occident -- II. Early Uses of 'West' and 'Western' -- III. 'Europe' and 'the Liberties of Europe' -- IV. Different 'Others': 'The West' versus 'Northern'/'Eastern' Russia, 'Oriental' Jews, and Turkey -- V. Edward Freeman and the 'Eternal' Struggle of 'the West' against 'the East' -- VI. The British Comtists' West -- VII. The Novelty of 'the West' in English -- VIII. The Wages of Foreign Influence -- IX. Conclusion -- 4. Ex Germaniae lux? How Did the Idea of 'the West' Reach America? -- I. Heidelberg, Göttingen, Halle, Berlin... -- II. From Franz Lieber to Francis Lieber -- III. The Need 'to have a distinct name for the indicated group': 'Western'? 'Occidental'? 'Cis-Caucasian'? -- IV. 'Orientalism' and 'Occidentalism': America, 1853 -- V. European Immigrants and Eastern Questions. VI. Occidentalism versus Orientalism (and Yet Another German-Educated American Academic) -- VII. 'The Meeting of the Orient and the Occident, Long Foreshadowed': Academic Political Science and 'Western Civilisation' -- VIII. Afro-American Radicalism versus Russian Menace? (And Japan as a Beacon of Hope) -- IX. Civilisations and Civilisationism: Alexander Crummell, William H. Ferris, W.E.B. Du Bois -- X. Conclusion -- 5. The War of Words: 'Western Civilisation' and 'the West', 1914-1919 -- I. 'We shall carry on this war to the end as a Kulturvolk': German Professors and 'the Civilised World' -- II. 'We are Europeans': America 'taken back into the fold' -- III. 'If not civilization, at least our civilization is at stake': The West according to 'the Zelig of twentieth-century politics' -- IV. Rabindranath Tagore on East and West -- V. Black America as the 'acid test for Occidental Civilization' -- VI. Thomas Mann's 'monstrous article' -- and His Reflections -- VII. Conclusion -- 6. From 'Decline of the West' to 'Defence of the West': The Interwar Years and the Crisis of Civilisation -- I. The Spengler Affair: The Decline of the West -- II. From Harlem to Paris (via Berlin, Munich, and Luxor): Black Intellectuals and Western Civilisation -- III. 'Nordic' Supremacists and Responses to Them -- IV. The Massis Affair: Defence of the West -- V. German East-Mania after the Great War -- VI. Anglo-American Responses to Massis -- VII. 'Bis auf weiteres möchten wir Abendländer bleiben': German-Speaking Reactions to Massis, and Alternative Visions for Germany -- VIII. More Criticism of Massis -- and Alternatives for Jazz-Age France -- IX. 'A new West, [. . .] by an act of Further Creation' -- X. The Sufi Convert on East and West: René Guénon/Abd al-Wa.id Ya.yá and Traditionalism -- XI. Defence of the West Continued: the 1930s and the Clouds of War. XII. Conclusion -- 7. The Second World War and Ideas of 'the West' -- I. 'Western Civilization Will be Saved.' Or Was 'the Prevailing Education [. . .] Destroying it'? -- II. A 'tear for France' -- III. Guerres Franco-Françaises Under Occupation: Civilisation Européenne or Civilisation Occidentale? -- IV. Europe between East and Extreme West: from Simone Weil to Albert Camus -- V. 'Pour l'alliance de l'Occident', or a 'Latin Empire'? Raymond Aron's versus Alexandre Kojève's Postwar Order -- VI. The Atlantic Community -- VII. When Peoples Meet: Alain Locke and 'the Achilles of the West' -- VIII. Conclusion -- 8. The Cold War and Its 'Wests' -- I. Lippmann's 'natural allies' and the Atlantic Community -- II. A 'spiritual consolidation of western civilization': Made in Britain -- III. 'It is twenty-five o'clock': Europe 'between the barbarians of the East and those of the West'? -- IV. '[T]o swing the spiritual balance in favor of the US': Henry Kissinger's ' "Western" or "Occidental" civilization' -- V. The Gospel(s) according to Arnold Toynbee -- VI. 'Freunde, die Freiheit hat die Offensive ergriffen!' Those Who Said, 'I Choose the West' -- VII. Hannah Arendt and 'the famous "decline of the West"' -- VIII. Return to the Principles of Western Civilisation: Athens and Jerusalem -- IX. The 'true Westerner' par excellence: Raymond Aron's Cold War -- X. 'Last call [. . .] to the moral conscience of the West': Richard Wright, Empathetic Westerner 'ahead of the West' -- XI. The 'vitality of the so-transgressed Western ideals': James Baldwin's Parisian Encounters -- XII. 'Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.' -- XIII. Cultural versus Political West: Milan Kundera's and Czeslaw Milosz's 'Kidnapped West' -- XIV. Post-mortem: Victorious America Conquered by Germania capta? -- XV. Conclusion -- 9. What Is 'the West' after the Cold War?. I. 'The Triumph of the West, of the Western idea' according to Francis Fukuyama -- II. Professor Schlesinger's Reflections on a Multicultural Society -- III. Trotskyite (Critical) Defence of the West: Cornelius Castoriadis -- IV. 'The West Unique, Not Universal': Samuel Huntington and 'the Clash of Civilizations' -- V. '[A]uf die Seite des Westens': Jürgen Habermas, Heinrich August Winkler and the Western Wertegemeinschaft -- VI. American Anticivilisation versus All Civilisations? Huntingtonism after Huntington -- VII. A Tale of Three Speeches: Who Spoke Better in Warsaw-Bush or Trump? -- VIII. The End of the West, version Michel Houellebecq -- IX. Conclusion: What 'West' for the Post-Post-Cold War Era? -- 10. Conclusion: Words, Ideas, and Why They Matter -- I. Alternatives at the Gates? -- II. '[O]nly something which has no history can be defined' -- III. Why Does Any of This Matter? -- IV. Classicists Bearing Gifts? -- V. What Is To Be Done? -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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