Cultural studies sought non-deterministic Marxist accounts of ideology

Evidence

This was when the Centre “took the plunge” into European critical theory, from Kant and Hegel through to Dilthey, Weber, Goldmann, Mannheim, and the phenomenologists. As Stuart explains, one fundamental motivation here was to find a way to avoid falling into the problems of the (then still influential) forms of deterministic Marxism in relation to questions of knowledge and ideology. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 287

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the core intellectual problem of the volume: how to retain economic determination on culture while allowing ideological superstructures relative autonomy.
• XREF: connects to: Ideology theory in Capital informed Hall’s reading of Marx.; Cultural Studies engaged Marxism’s questions without adopting Marxism as dogma — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 240; Cultural Studies and Marxism never had a perfect theoretical fit — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 241 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ideology theory in Capital informed Hall’s reading of Marx.; Cultural Studies engaged Marxism’s questions without adopting Marxism as dogma — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 240; Cultural Studies and Marxism never had a perfect theoretical fit — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 241 (+3 more)