Mapping Modern Politics: Georgios Varouxakis’s The Idea of The West

This contribution starts off by placing The Idea of the West in the context of Georgios Varoxakis's wider oeuvre. It goes on to explore the significance of the Comtean origins of the idea of the West, and the enduring importance of the idea of the West as a spiritual entity. It concludes by speculating as to what Varouxakis's account has to tell us about the durability of the idea of the West in twenty-first century politics.