Hall prioritized current political engagement over perfecting his historical legacy.

Evidence

Of course, while he found that this process made for an interesting dialogue, which gave him a good opportunity to review older work in the light of new developments and to rediscover some things that had been lost, it was nonetheless never a priority for him. … The production of an essay such as the Soundings manifesto on neoliberalism, on which he was still working in his last months, was always more attractive to him than carving out a definitive version of anything older. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 48

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the essay-collection genre debates in The Library: A Fragile History about how authors curate their own legacies.