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source of clichéed philosophical disdain for dirty history in the academicist mode, Kant to Hegel
“It would appear no law-governed history of mankind is possible …We can scarcely help feeling a certain distaste on observing their activities as enacted in the greatworld-drama … everything as a whole is made up of folly and childish vanity, and often ofchildish malice and destructiveness…. The only way out for the philosopher … is for him toattempt to discover a purpose in nature behind this senseless course of human events.”– Kant quoted disapprovingly, at least as antagonistic to Foucault’s view of intelligible orders being immanent in history, in John Protevi’s “What does Foucault think is new about neoliberalism?” 2009