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How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. "The West" was not used by Plato, Cicero, Locke, Mill, or other canonized figures of what we today call the Western tradition. It was not first wielded by empire-builders.

Throughout this book the following theme will be reiterated, often; every command, edict, decree, law, bylaw, regulation, rule, statute, bill, policy, vote, directive, guideline, instruction, control, political mandate or philosophy, that has ever existed involves regulating human action(s) in some way…and we have all been regulated since ancient times. This book is an abstract analysis of authority itself, but more than this it is the sum of the author’s critical investigation into its history, essence, meaning, purpose, as well as into its various applications, both modern and ...