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Honorable Mention, 2022 CMA Book Awards
Outside the Gates: A Novel
The gates of Drancy Internment Camp in the northeast suburbs of Paris served as a holding pen for thousands of Jews during the German occupation of France in World War II. Jean Wahl, philosophy professor, poet, bachelor at the top of Parisian society before his arrest, was among those very few who escaped.
Jean Wahl, Human Existence and Transcendence
William C. Hackett’s English translation of Jean Wahl’s Existence humaine et transcendence (1944) brings back to life an all-but-forgotten book that provocatively explores the philosophical concept of transcendence.
W. C. HACKETT
I began writing stories when I found myself, with my wife and young children, living under my parents’ roof and working three jobs: pizza delivery, warehouse manager, and adjunct professor.
I had returned home to Nashville after five years as a professor in Australia and two semesters as visiting faculty at a couple of schools in New England.
Human Existence and Transcendence (Thresholds in Philosophy and Theology)
Human Existence and Transcendence (Thresholds in Philosophy and Theology
William C. Hackett’s English translation of Jean Wahl’s Existence humaine et transcendence (1944) brings back to life an all-but-forgotten book that provocatively explores the philosophical concept of transcendence. Based on what Emmanuel Levinas called “Wahl’s famous lecture” from 1937, Existence humaine et transcendence captured a watershed moment of European philosophy.