is a prominent French philosopher and poet. He made a remarkable reversal by breaking away from his earlier Trotskite activism and embracing Christian faith, to which he then dedicated all of his work. Chrétien teaches History of Philosophy of the Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages at the Sorbonne. Chrétiens thought has been described as one of the most eloquent expressions of the ‘theological turn’ French phenomenology has taken. Jacques Derrida, among others, was a great admirer of his work. Among his many books are: La Voix nue: phénoménologie de la promesse (1990), Saint Augustin et les actes de parole (2002), La joie spacieuse: essai sur la dilatation (2006). In English translation appeared: The unforgettable and the unhoped for (2002), Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art (2003) and The Call and the Response (2004).