About the Translator
Alastair Hannay (b. 1932) is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo, has been a visiting professor at the University of California (Berkeley and San Diego) and the University of Stockholm, and was for many years editor of Inquiry. He is the author of Mental Images: A Defence (Allen & Unwin 1971; Routledge 2002), Kierkegaard (Routledge 1982, 1999), Human Consciousness (Routledge 1990), Kierkegaard: A Biography (Cambridge 2001), Kierkegaard and Philosophy (Routledge 2003), and On the Public (Routledge 2005). He has already translated several of Kierkegaard’s works (for Penguin Classics and Cambridge University Press) and is engaged in the ongoing Princeton critical edition of Kierkegaard’s Papers and Journals. A resident of Norway since 1961, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Royal Norwegian Scientific Society of Science and Letters, and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.