Alastair Hannay (born 1932) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He was born in Plymouth, England and has been a resident of Norway since 1961. He has written about and translated several works of Kierkegaard and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His parents were Scottish.
Alastair Hannay, and Gordon D. Marino (editors), The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-521-47719-0.
-------- Human Consciousness (Problems of Philosophy Their Past and Present)", Routledge (November 1990), ISBN 0-415-03299-7.
--------, Kierkegaard (The Arguments of the Philosophers), Routledge; New Edition (December 1999), ISBN 0-415-06365-5.
--------, Kierkegaard: A Biography, Cambridge University Press, New edition 2003, ISBN 0-521-53181-0
--------, Kierkegaard and Philosophy: Selected Essays, London; New York: Routledge, paperback 2006. ( E-book version)
--------, and Bruce H. Kirmmse, Niels Jorgen Cappelorn, George Pattison, Jon Stewart (editors), Soren Kierkegaard (author), Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks: Volume I: Journals AA-DD, Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-691-09222-2.
--------, Mental Images: A Defence (Muirhead Library of Philosophy), Humanities Press/Routledge (1971, repr. 2002), ISBN 0-04-100030-7.
--------, On the Public, Routledge; 1 edition, (July 13, 2005), ISBN 0-415-32792-X.
-------- and Andrew Feenberg (editors), Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology), Indiana University Press (May 1995), ISBN 0-253-20940-4.
Translations
Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-044577-3.
Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-044449-1.
Soren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers: A Selection,ISBN 0-14-044589-7.
Soren Kierkegaard, A Literary Review, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-044801-2.
Soren Kierkegaard The Sickness Unto Death, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-044533-1.
Essays
Hannay, Alastair, “Basic Despair in the Sickness Unto Death,” in Kierkegaard Studies-Yearbook, pp. 15—32.
--------, "Consciousness and the Experience of Freedom," in John Searle and His Critics, (Philosophers and their Critics) by Ernest Lepore (Editor), Walter Gulick (Editor), Wiley-Blackwell (April 15, 1993) ISBN 0-63-11-8702-2 , ISBN 978-0-63-118702-8
--------, “Kierkegaardian Despair and the Irascible Soul,” in Kierkegaard Studies — Yearbook, 1997, pp. 51—69.
--------, “Kierkegaard: the Pathologist,” in Enrahonar, 29, 1998, pp. 109—114.
--------, “Paradigmatic Despair and the Quest for a Kierkegaardian Anthropology,” in Kierkegaard Studies-Yearbook, pp. 149—163.
--------, "To See a Mental Image," in Mind, April 1973, pp. 161—182.
--------, "Wollheim and Seeing Black on White As A Picture," in British Journal of Aesthetics, 10, 1970, pp. 107—118.
Online articles
Being Something on Hermeneutics and Communication in Kierkegaard After All
Kierkegaard the Pathologist
Online books
Kierkegaard and Philosophy: Selected Essays (via Google Books)
Online review
On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time by Edward F. Mooney, Ashgate, 2007, ISBN 0754658228