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.
Keywords:
Palestine, narrative, stranger, recognition, turning points
How to cite:
Conces, Rory J. “Reading Isabella Hammad and Beyond: THE UNSAID – The Point of Recognizing Turning Points, Narratives (Stories), and Strangers.” Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 9, no. 4 (2025): 183-200. https://doi.org/10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0040.
Author:
Rory J. Conces
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska
660 N. 12th St., 1223 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0312, USA
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8364-3903
rconces@unomaha.edu
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