Like,how could you sleep! You cruel cruel intellectual you!Know you not , like how many lives you've ruined! But you see its easier to diss a body of text than to produce a body of text non? Its like going to the gym and ripping on a muscle boy's routine while eating marshmellow's!You must give the poor baby credit for saying his say! So tarry not,intellectual dude ! Show us some bitchin' examples of this "rigor" that you demand. Like OK!

PS. Our book critic asked to key you into the fact that you employed extreme bad faith in your pejorative indictment of his employ of "Nietzchian principles!" Like what's Josh got to do with it? He wants you to know that he's aware that Nietezche's stance transcends the banality of Nietzche=Nihilism. Or as he e-mailed to say " We're not talking Sex Pistol's Nihilism here, OK. Everybody knows that its all about the proposition of nihilism as a tactic against the simplistic assignment of the meaning of human existence to an abstract and oh-so convienient "God". But while that effacement was a necassary and important cultural impulse in the 19th century, the consequence of that effacement on 20th century life is precisely what Kaufmann adresses in the introduction of his book. So of course, until he reads Kaufman's book what Mr. Lee was indulging in was just an emotional and immature display of intellectual tantrum throwing" colored by his very subjective frustrations.

"Besides this wasn't a review about Nietzche vs Kaufman" , he continues ."The subtext of my whole argument (and all my subsequent arguments from here on in) is that all bodies of ideas are inextricably tied to the historical eras they emerge from. The attempt to treat them as eternal and universal truths is pointless. Fortunately, or unfortunately for Mr. Lee, there is such a thing as "intellectual fashion". Deconstruction (try not to flinch) revealed a lot about where our culture was in the 1980's. Existentialism says a lot about where we were in the 1950's. Kant's arguments as to the "end of reason", Hiedigger and his godammed "that-which-regions" all these "ideas of the day" --traced back to Plato and his proposition of pure ideals relflect that the process of human philosophy is tied to the processes of human history. I was just trying to make this point in a playful way. But of course some wiseass had to bring Hilton Kramer into this"

Anyway,you intellectual types dudes can duke it out. I'm going off to have lunch with that crazyass film producer friend of mine. Besides who the hell is Hilton Kramer? Can he get us good seats at Le Cirque?