The West

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The History of an Idea

Georgios Varouxakis(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 2. Mai 2025

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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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