{"product_id":"9780692490990","title":"The Nihilist: A Philosophical Novel","description":"It seems so important as you do what you do,\u003cbr\u003eBut in times to come no one remembers you.\u003cbr\u003eYour actions are forgotten and your feelings destroyed.\u003cbr\u003eYou've become one with the nihilist void.\u003cp\u003eInspired by real-life events, as well as by classic philosophical novels such as Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, Albert Camus' The Stranger, Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask, and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, The Nihilist tells the story of a philosophy professor caught in the grips of nihilistic despair. Following the death of his mother and the increasingly bizarre deaths of his closest friends, the nameless main character is afflicted with a mysterious malady that forces him to confront the absurdity of his own meaningless existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrain parasites, scatological dreams, punk rock, and spontaneous human combustion appear alongside the ideas of Heraclitus, Socrates, Diogenes, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger. The result is a wryly humorous philosophical allegory of hopelessness and resignation in the face of the void.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Frills Buffalo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50088994308336,"sku":"9780692490990","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692490990","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}