Full Idea
French philosophy since the 1930s might be described as a series of returns: to Hegel (in Kojčve and early Sartre), to Nietzsche (in Foucault and Deleuze), or to Marx (in Althusser).
Gist of Idea
The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx
Source
Simon Critchley (Continental Philosophy - V. Short Intro [2001], Ch.2)
Book Reference
Critchley,Simon: 'Continental Philosophy - Very Short Intro' [OUP 2001], p.16
A Reaction
An interesting map. The question might be why they return to those three, rather than (say) Hume or Leibniz. If the choice of which one you return to a matter of 'taste' (as Nietzsche would have it)?