Rising non-Western cultures relativized the Western episteme

Evidence

I also wanted to show the cultural and ideological dimensions of the West’s expansion. For if the Rest was necessary for the political, economic, and social formation of the West, it was also essential to the West’s formation both of its own sense of itself—a “Western identity”—and of Western forms of knowledge. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 686 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Epistemological critique can be advanced from within the Arabic tradition as from the Western; A shared East-West binary grounds vast and diverse bodies of thought; Studying other cultures without repression requires rethinking knowledge and power — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 93 (+10 more)

Related

• The West’s self-conception formed only in relation to the Rest (similarity 0.90)
• The West manufactured its own internal others (similarity 0.89)
• The Rest was constitutive of the West’s identity and knowledge (similarity 0.89)
• The West’s formation cannot be explained without reference to the Rest (similarity 0.86)
• The Enlightenment’s self-image required the Rest as its suppressed opposite. (similarity 0.86)
• The idea of the West helped constitute the West itself (similarity 0.85)
• The West and the Rest is constituted as a discourse, not a geography (similarity 0.84)
• The West and the Rest is a constructed, contingent discourse (similarity 0.84)
• The West-Rest discourse persists and still shapes modern sociology (similarity 0.84)
• The West is as much an idea as a geographic fact (similarity 0.84)
• The West is a historical construct defined by development traits, not geography (similarity 0.83)
• The West and the Rest are mutable historical and linguistic constructs, not fixed entities. (similarity 0.83)
• Western modernity was constituted, from its origins, through exploitative relations with the Rest. (similarity 0.83)
• Studying other cultures without repression requires rethinking knowledge and power (similarity 0.83)
• The West concept classifies, represents, compares, and evaluates societies (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The Rest was constitutive of the West’s identity and knowledge #corroborates (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 686