William Christian Hackett
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William Christian 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 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]
Hackett is a professor of philosophy at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in St. Meinrad, Indiana.[6]
