Jean-Louis Chretien teaches philosophy at the University of Paris IV. His books, as translated into English, include The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For (Fordham University Press, 2002), Hand to Hand (Fordham University Press, 2003), and The Call and the Response (Fordham University Press, 2004). He is one of the coeditors of Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn": The French Debate (Fordham University Press, 2000), as well as the author of the follow-up volume Phenomenology "Wide Open": After the French Debate (Fordham University Press, 2005).

"Densely thought and beautifully written." -- -Kevin Hart " Without question, The Unforgettable and the Unhoped for proves to be an important contribution in the ongoing campaign of the theological turn." -Journal of Phenomenological Psychology

• The immemorial and reminiscence; the reserve of forgetting; the unforgettable; the sudden and the unhoped for; retrospection.