William Christian Hackett

W. C. (William C., W. Chris) Hackett is a novelist, philosopher, and translator. He is the author of the award-winning Outside the Gates (2021), the first installment of a three-part story retelling a year in the life of 'Monsieur, le professeur' Jean Wahl during the Nazi Occupation of Paris.

His scholarly writings include Anthropomorphism and Christian Theology (2024), Philosophy in Word and Name: Myth, Wisdom, Apocalypse (2020), and Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology (2015). He is also the translator of theological and philosophical works from French to English, including Jean-Yves Lacoste's From Theology to Theological Thinking (2012) and Jean Wahl's Human Existence and Transcendence (2014).