Reading Isabella Hammad and Beyond: THE UNSAID – The Point of Recognizing Turning Points, Narratives (Stories), and Strangers

Authors

• Rory Conces, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8364-3903

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-31-2026

Publication Title

Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture

Volume

9

Issue

4

First Page

183

Last Page

200

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0040

Abstract

The essay is a reflection on Isabella Hammad’s book, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (2024). The essay’s approach is to follow the four themes that reflect the title and the subtitle of the book and to draw out what is unsaid from what is said by Hammad. The unsaid reflects my conceptual and historical baggage, so there is a wide assortment of theorists that I connect Hammad with, including Edward Said, Hannah Arendt, Amartya Sen, Didier Fassin, and Slavoj Žižek.

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Conces, Rory, "Reading Isabella Hammad and Beyond: THE UNSAID – The Point of Recognizing Turning Points, Narratives (Stories), and Strangers" (2026). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 46.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/philfacpub/46

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