The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power

by Stuart Hall

The first five chapters of this book examine the long historical processes through which a new type of society - advanced, developed, and industrial - emerged. They chart in broad outline the paths by which this society reached what is now called "modernity." This chapter explores the role which societies outside Europe played in this process. It examines how an idea of "the West and the Rest" was constituted; how relations between western and non-western societies came to be represented. We refer to this as the formation of the "discourse" of "the West and the Rest."

Genres: Nonfiction, Cultural Studies

Unknown Binding

About the author

Stuart Hall was an influential Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist. He was Professor of Sociology at the Open University, the founding editor of New Left Review, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.

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