William Christian Hackett, or W. C. Hackett (born 1979) is an American Catholic philosopher. He is also a translator, involved in the reception of French Phenomenology into English,[1] and a novelist.
His novel, Outside the Gates,[2] retells the true story of Jewish existentialist philosopher
Jean Wahl's escape from
Drancy Internment Camp and underground flight to the
Free zone during the
German Occupation of France in 1941.[3][4] Hackett is the translator of Wahl's Human Existence and Transcendence, published in 1944 after his escape, that is partially retold by the novel.[5]
William Christian Hackett, or W. C. Hackett (born 1979) is an American Catholic philosopher. He is also a translator, involved in the reception of French Phenomenology into English,[1] and a novelist.
His novel, Outside the Gates,[2] retells the true story of Jewish existentialist philosopher
Jean Wahl's escape from
Drancy Internment Camp and underground flight to the
Free zone during the
German Occupation of France in 1941.[3][4] Hackett is the translator of Wahl's Human Existence and Transcendence, published in 1944 after his escape, that is partially retold by the novel.[5]