【Signed book】Daichi Hayashi "Trust, Hope, and Love for the World"

*This is a signed copy by the author, Daichi Hayashi.

“That one may harbor trust, hope, and love in this world—this is the single, overwhelmingly simple yet profoundly powerful message Arendt sought to convey to us through ‘The Human Condition.’… Was it not Arendt, who lived through the age of totalitarianism, who most desperately sought such a message? In a situation where the world presented itself as something to be negated, yet Arendt, who could not bring herself to negate the world entirely, was it not she who needed this message more than anyone?”

Here, a vivid and fresh study of Hannah Arendt is born. The 26-year-old author approaches the core of Arendt’s entire oeuvre by interpreting one of her major works, “The Human Condition” (the German version of “The Human Condition”), with the concept of “the world” as its main axis, along with keywords such as “labor,” “work,” “action,” “beginning,” and “natality,” and a series of perspectives including “death,” “mortality,” “immortality,” “memory,” “forgetting,” “the past,” and “traces.” With its extensive annotations, this unique and open book is an essay—a theoretical attempt to view the world with new eyes, using Arendt’s thought as a lens. (From the publisher's website)