The German Ideology contains a second humanist template reducing determination to praxis
Evidence
It is also worth noting that, though the determinacy of “the economic” over the superstructures is the prevailing form in which this is expressed here, it is sometimes overlaid by a second template: the tendency to reduce determination, not to “the economic” but to History itself—to praxis: to an undifferentiated praxis which rolls throughout the whole social formation, as its essential ground. Some passages of The German Ideology are not all that far from the more humanist-historicist assertion of The Holy Family that “History is nothing but the activity of men.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 497
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- QUESTION: How does this residual humanist thread relate to Hall’s own Gramscian turn? Worth chasing.