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