{"product_id":"9780692502167","title":"Walking Up And Down On It: Collected Philosophical Works","description":"Available for the first time anywhere, Emericus Durden's three essays on skeptical nihilism are collected in one volume.\u003cp\u003eOne's experience of the entire transformation process from beginning to end - taking up the method of skeptical nihilism, seeing the practice through to its completion, afterwards stabilizing oneself in the new perspective beyond every possible form of human society and civilization - yes, one's ultimate experience is that of triumph, triumph over oneself, triumph over civilization's charming beliefs and efficient systems, triumph over democracy, capitalism, technology, empirical science, and religion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all that, the sense of triumph results from winning a painful, protracted war most certainly, a war waged against oneself, not against other people. Indeed, it's about becoming victorious against oneself, if we can allow ourselves to imagine such a thing. And if we cannot yet imagine it, well, I don't feel sorry for any of us because we are all in the same boat at first. That is to say, we are all born equal: equally stupid, equally ignorant of the higher realities, equally possessed by the obsessions of civilization - and therefore equally at odds with our true selves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Radical Academic Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49849307005168,"sku":"9780692502167","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692502167","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}