The West manufactured its own internal others

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 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The idea of the West helped constitute the West itself — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 514; The West’s apparent unity masks deep internal divisions; The Rest was constitutive of the West’s identity and knowledge — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 686 (+2 more)

Related

• The West’s self-conception formed only in relation to the Rest (similarity 0.93)
• The Rest was constitutive of the West’s identity and knowledge (similarity 0.91)
• The idea of the West helped constitute the West itself (similarity 0.90)
• Rising non-Western cultures relativized the Western episteme (similarity 0.89)
• The Enlightenment’s self-image required the Rest as its suppressed opposite. (similarity 0.86)
• The West’s formation cannot be explained without reference to the Rest (similarity 0.85)
• The West is a historical construct defined by development traits, not geography (similarity 0.84)
• European identity formed through internal cohesion paired with contrast to other worlds (similarity 0.83)
• The West and the Rest is a constructed, contingent discourse (similarity 0.83)
• The West is as much an idea as a geographic fact (similarity 0.83)
• Western modernity was constituted, from its origins, through exploitative relations with the Rest. (similarity 0.81)
• The West concept classifies, represents, compares, and evaluates societies (similarity 0.81)
• The West and the Rest is constituted as a discourse, not a geography (similarity 0.81)
• Europe’s identity as the West fused internal cohesion with opposition to external worlds. (similarity 0.81)
• East and West are analytical distinctions, not literal geographic categories (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The West’s apparent unity masks deep internal divisions #expands (0.85)
• The West and the Rest is a constructed, contingent discourse #expands (0.85)
• The Rest was constitutive of the West’s identity and knowledge #qualifies (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 686
• The West required the Rest as a conceptual opposite to define itself. #qualifies (0.75)