Hall chose French theory over German Romantic-Marxist traditions

Evidence

Everybody asks the question, Why does the Centre become so obsessed by the French, by French thought in general, when there is an available critical theory in Germany which is much closer to Marxism than that? And I think this is the reason. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 982

Categorization

• XREF: Contextualizes why Hall’s framework draws on Althusser, Foucault, and Gramsci rather than Adorno/Horkheimer — relevant to which theory the Islamophobia field inherits.
• QUESTION: The ‘reason’ names the rejection of teleology from the previous passage; the anti-Hegelian motivation for the French turn is worth tracing further.