Alastair Hannay
Encyclopedia
Alastair Hannay 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
.
University of Oslo
The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...
. He was born in Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...
, England
England
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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
Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity, operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis and providing public benefit throughout Scotland...
. His parents were Scottish
Scotland
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.
Books
- 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 0-631-18702-2 , ISBN 978-0-631-18702-8
- --------, “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 0-7546-5822-8