The West’s self-conception formed only in relation to the Rest

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: Western projects justify themselves by framing colonized peoples as incapable of self-improvement.; Orient and West are unstable human constructs, not fixed realities; The West is a historical construct defined by development traits, not geography (+15 more)

Related

• The West manufactured its own internal others (similarity 0.93)
• The Rest was constitutive of the West’s identity and knowledge (similarity 0.93)
• The idea of the West helped constitute the West itself (similarity 0.91)
• Rising non-Western cultures relativized the Western episteme (similarity 0.90)
• The West is a historical construct defined by development traits, not geography (similarity 0.89)
• The Enlightenment’s self-image required the Rest as its suppressed opposite. (similarity 0.87)
• The West and the Rest is a constructed, contingent discourse (similarity 0.86)
• The West is as much an idea as a geographic fact (similarity 0.86)
• The West’s formation cannot be explained without reference to the Rest (similarity 0.85)
• The West and the Rest is constituted as a discourse, not a geography (similarity 0.83)
• The West concept classifies, represents, compares, and evaluates societies (similarity 0.83)
• The West required the Rest as a conceptual opposite to define itself. (similarity 0.83)
• Western modernity was constituted, from its origins, through exploitative relations with the Rest. (similarity 0.82)
• The West and the Rest are mutable historical and linguistic constructs, not fixed entities. (similarity 0.82)
• The West-and-Rest discourse became the dominant Western way of representing itself and others (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The West required the Rest as a conceptual opposite to define itself. #corroborates (0.95)
• The Rest was constitutive of the West’s identity and knowledge #corroborates (0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 686