Studying the Comparison of the West Concept in the Discourse of Constitutionalist Intellectuals and the Intellectuals of the Fortieth Decade

The entrance of the modernism to Iran was accompanied with the colonialism and the widespread interferences of western countries. This companionship, besides other characteristics of Iran society, led to different reflections and attitudes to the west and the modernism. One of them occurred between constitutionalist intellectual's discourse and the one of intellectuals of the fortieth decade.
Therefore, to conducting this research, many references were studied, especially literary ones to answer the question about the way in which the west portrayed in these two discourses.
The theoretical framework of the present paper and its method are extracted from some assumptions of discourse analysis theories.The results demonstrate that the constitutionalist intellectuals consider the west as a progressed civilization with the idea of freedom, equality, science, technology and so forth; while the concept in the fortieth decade was replaced by the imperialism which exploited Iran in different ways and a civilization increasingly isolated from spiritual values and morality.