Piotr Mróz

Piotr Mróz (born 8 April 1953) is a Polish philosopher, professor of humanities, head of the Department of Philosophy of Culture at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, translator, polyglot.

Biography He was born in Kraków. In 1977, at the Jagiellonian University, he defended his master's thesis in English Philology: and then turned to the aesthetics of Søren Kierkegaard (Soren Kierkegaard and the Impossible Art, 2013). He became the head of the Department of Philosophy of Culture at the of the Jagiellonian University. As an academic, he teaches popular and well-attended courses, which continue to attract successive generations of students. These courses are primarily devoted to existentialism, the main theories of the philosophy of culture, and philosophical themes in fiction. Piotr Mróz has also been a visiting professor at a number of Western European and international universities, including, among others, University of Lagos in Nigeria, where he met Professor Jim Unah, one of Heidegger's students. Since the late 1990s, he has also taught courses in English and Spanish for international students at the Jagiellonian University and other universities in Kraków.

He regularly publishes articles in the Analecta Husserliana series, a journal founded by Anna Teresa Tymieniecka, which features articles on phenomenological research. He has also participated in numerous conferences and seminars organized by Professor Tymieniecka.

He is a polyglot; he speaks six foreign languages. Over the years, he has collaborated closely with Maria Gołaszewska and (students of Roman Ingarden); as well as with , Krystyna Wilkoszewska, Janusz Mizera, and Józef Tischner. On various occasions, he met philosophers of culture from across Europe and the world, including Jacques Derrida (whose personal translator he was during his visit to Poland), Joseph Beuys, and Roger Scruton. Together with the theatre director , he traveled through Russia, Mongolia, China, Polynesia, and Australia in the footsteps of Bronisław Malinowski.

He supervised three doctoral dissertations, including: (2011), Maciej Kałuża (2013), Paweł Malata (2019).

Books 1990: Sztuka a nierzeczywistość (publisher: PWN) 1992: Drogi nierzeczywistości: poglądy estetyczne Jean-Paul Sartre’a 1930–1960 (publisher: Jagiellonian University) 1992: Filozofia sztuki (w ujęciu egzystencjalizmu) (publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Oddział w Krakowie) 1992: Corridors of power: an aesthetic study of the Machiavellian and Erasmian Rulers in Shakespeare (Zakład Estetyki Instytutu Filozofii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego) 1997: Four essays in existentialism (Wydawnictwo Aureus) 1998: Surrealizm a filozofia: André Bretona przygoda z nadrzeczywistym (Wydawnictwo Aureus) 2002: Sztuka jako projekt: filozofia i estetyka Maurice’a Merleau-Ponty’ego (Księgarnia Akademicka, rozprawa habilitacyjna) 2013: Søren Kierkegaard i sztuka niemożliwa: poglądy estetyczne Kierkegaardowskich autorów pseudonimowych (Wydawnictwo Libron) 2017: From the Absurd to Revolt / De l'absurde a la revolte. Dynamics in Albert Camus’s thought / Dynamique de la pensée d’Albert Camus, edition, together with Maciej Kałuża (Jagiellonian University Press)

Translations Into Polish Jean-Paul Sartre: Wyobraźnia (1998, together with Anna Śpiewak) Jean-Paul Sartre: Byt i nicość (2007, together with , Rafał Abracimów, Remigiusz Ryziński, Paulina Małochleb) Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki: Zen i kultura japońska (2009, together with Beata Szymańska and Anna Zalewska)

Into English Maria Gołaszewska, Aesthetics in Poland (1996)