Hall rejected the Frankfurt School because of its Hegelian heritage

Evidence

Many of the classic themes of the Althusserian intervention are resumed in and through his various uses of this term: for example, his argument that Marx’s “unity” is not the essentialist “expressive unity” to be found in Hegel, and that, therefore, Marx’s dialectic is not merely an inversion, but a theoretical advance over Hegel. … Marx’s “complex unity,” Althusser argues, is neither that in which everything perfectly expresses or corresponds to everything else; nor that in which everything is reducible to an expression of “the Economic.” It operates, instead, on the terrain of articulation. … Such conjunctures are not so much “determined” as overdetermined, i.e., they are the product of an articulation of contradictions, not directly reduced to one another. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 617 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

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Related

• Althusser never fully broke with Marxism’s Hegelian teleology (similarity 0.89)
• Althusser rejected the Hegelian ‘expressive totality’ conception of society (similarity 0.87)
• Later Marx abandoned thinking society as one simple expressive totality. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Althusser rejected the Hegelian ‘expressive totality’ conception of society #complicates (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 617