And the material conditions for this "great man" narrative is again the particular form of intellectual clerisy.

In other words, the move to experience and cultural relativist statements about "math culture" is exactly the cynical ideological move that an academic cleric does. It deflects from examination of where these narratives come from and attribute it to e.g. "math history" or "math culture" or just "something specific to math itself" etc, etc.

Neoliberal intellectuals love to attribute toxicity to the Enlightenment. They can't help it.