The book We and the West (and the World) appeared in late December 2025. It is available both here – below – and via Kindle Direct Publishing.
What Is “the West”? And How Do We Relate to It?
In We and the West (and the World), Stefan Heeb confronts the Western Question. He traces the historical evolution of this encompassing yet elusive civilization, and examines the pressing aspects of the West as a contemporary societal and geopolitical entity within the emerging multipolar global order. This panoramic portrait of the lifeworlds and worldviews surrounding us culminates in the decisive question: Whither, post-unipolar West?
About the book
Title: We and the West (and the world)
Author: Stefan Heeb
Publisher: SJH-XGD
ISBN: 978-3-9526232-1-3 (distributed via SJH-XGD)
978-3-9526232-2-0 (distributed via Kindle Direct Publishing/Amazon)
Format: Paperback, Softcover, 15.24 × 22.86 cm (6″ × 9″)
Content: 322 pages, 39 illustrations (grayscale), 62,165 words, 401,314 characters
Release date: 28DEC2025
Language: English
Price: CHF 25.00
Table of contents
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The West?! – A Personal Introduction
What Is “the West”? – And: How Do We Relate to It?
The West’s Emergence as a Historical Civilization
Language and Writing in the West and in the World
The West’s Trajectory toward Modernity
The West as a Contemporary Entity
Whither, Post-Unipolar West?
Switzerland as a Model for a Post-Unipolar West?
View chapters and subchapters
The West?! – A Personal Introduction
Via the Far East to the West
The West Between Diversity and Uniformity
No West After All?
We and the West
About This Book
What Is “the West”? – And: How Do We Relate to It?
The West as a Civilization and as a Geopolitical Entity
The Western Question
Switzerland and the West
Approaching the Diversity Within the West
Western Reach: The West in the Far East and in the World
Terms for the West in Eastern Eurasia
The Urgency Surrounding the West
What Is a Civilization?
Which Discipline Takes Up the West? – All and None!
The West’s Emergence as a Historical Civilization
“The West” Merely Relative? – Geographically Western Eurasia
First Traces of the West 2,500 Years Ago?
Ancient Greece as a Key Reference – Not Only for the West
The Roman Empire – Starting Point of the West?
Germanization after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Christianization
Language and Writing in the West and in the World
The West’s Trajectory toward Modernity
Switzerland’s Emergence at the Heart of the West
Western Expansion and Imperial Continuity
The West in Modernity – The Measure of Almost All Things
The West as a Contemporary Entity
The Historical Within the Contemporary: Civilization and Civilizations
The West in the Global Order
The Official West’s Self-Image
Balancing Act in Strategic Writings: Between Dominance and Benevolence
Critique of the Hegemonic West in the Unipolar Moment
Unipolar, Hegemonic, Transatlantic Biases
Narrative and Reality in the Unipolar Moment
Eurasian Integration and Multipolarity vs. Transatlantic Unipolarity
Visions Worse Than the Actual Unipolar Western Hegemony?
Various Moral Souls in the West’s Breast
Western Modes of Functioning – “Liberal” and “Democratic”?
Barely Veiled Oligarchies? Truly Legitimate Social Order?
Things Hard to Say: Reflections on Public Discourse
The Anglosphere in the West and in the World – Far-Reaching and Deep
Whither, Post-Unipolar West?
Switzerland as a Model for a Post-Unipolar West?
Excerpts (pre-published on Whither Post-Unipolar West?)
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I. The West’s Emergence as a Historical Civilization
→ 1/11 The “West” Merely Relative? – Geographically Western Eurasia
→ 2/11 First Traces of the West 2500 Years Ago?
→ 3/11 Ancient Greece as a Key Reference – Not Only for the West
II. The West’s Trajectory toward Modernity
→ 4/11 Switzerland’s Emergence at the Heart of the West
→ 5/11 Western Expansion and Imperial Continuity
→ 6/11 The West in Modernity – The Measure of Almost All Things
III. The West as a Contemporary Entity
→ 7/11 The West in the Global Order
→ 8/11 Unipolar, Hegemonic, Transatlantic Biases
→ 9/11 Various Moral Souls in the West’s Breast
→ 10/11 Western Modes of Functioning – “Liberal” and “Democratic”?
→ 11/11 Barely Veiled Oligarchies? Truly Legitimate Social Order?
→ Bonus: Whither, Post-Unipolar West?
Illustrations
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Sources
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