The culturalist paradigm is essentializing despite rejecting Hegelian essence-seeking.

Evidence

These positions, especially in their more concrete historical rendering, are the very opposite of a Hegelian search for underlying Essences. 20 Yet, in their tendency to reduce practices to praxis and to find common and homologous “forms” underlying the most apparently differentiated areas, their movement is “essentializing.” They have a particular way of understanding the totality—though it is with a small “t,” concrete and historically determinate, uneven in its correspondences. They understand it “expressively.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 191

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: Hall’s claim that anti-Hegelian culturalism is still essentializing in its own way — how does this critique carry into his later thinking?