Hall accepts anti-foundationalism yet rejects full relativism and deconstruction

Evidence

Stuart is entirely sympathetic to the postmodern critique which insists that neither Marxism nor any other analytical system can produce a finished theoretical paradigm of incontestable truths. However, he regards many of the authors of that critique as themselves insufficiently self-reflexive about their own perspective—and there are also serious limits to what he will concede either to the relativism of discourse theory or to the idealism of the fully deconstructionist position. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 305

Categorization

• XREF: This delicate middle position between Habermas and Lyotard parallels Hall’s reading purpose - the intellectual politics essay ambitions.