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Why the man who coined 'the West' would be horrified by its usage in the age of Netanyahu and Trump
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In 'The West: The History of an Idea,' Georgios Varouxakis outlines how the far-right, anti-Islam invocations of 'defending Western civilization' in today's political discourse have strayed from the concept birthed by French philosopher Auguste Comte