The Polish Journal
of Aesthetics
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
53 (2/2019)
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Leszek Sosnowski Editorial Board:
Dominika Czakon (Deputy Editor), Natalia Anna Michna (Deputy Editor), Anna Kuchta (Secretary), Marcin Lubecki (Editorial layout & Typesetting), Gabriela Matusiak, Adrian Mróz
Advisory Board:
Władysław Stróżewski (President of Advisory Board), Tiziana Andino, Nigel Dower, Saulius Geniusas, Jean Grondin, Carl Humphries, Ason Jaggar, Dalius Jonkus, Akiko Kasuya, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Leo Luks, Diana Tietjens Meyers, Carla Milani Damião, Mauro Perani, Kiyomitsu Yui
Contact:
Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University 52 Grodzka Street, 31-004 Kraków, Poland
pjaestheticsuj@gmail.com, www.pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl Published by:
Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University 52 Grodzka Street, 31-004 Kraków
Co-publisher:
Wydawnictwo Nowa Strona – Marcin Lubecki 22/43 Podgórze Street, 43-300 Bielsko-Biała Academic Journals
www.academic-journals.eu Cover Design:
Katarzyna Migdał Cover Artwork:
Franz Kafka, Der Denker (1924) & Mann zwischen Gittern (1924)
First Edition
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e-ISSN 2544-8242
THE PHILOSOPHER
Edited by Sonia Kamińska and Barry Smith
FR A N Z K
CONTENTS
SONIA KAMIŃSKA & From the Editors 9
BARRY SMITH How Many Kafka’s Are There?
Articles
AOILEANN NÍ “How Can One Take Delight in the World ÉIGEARTAIGH Unless One Flees to It for Refuge?”: The Fear
of Freedom in Erich Fromm and Franz Kafka 15
CHARLENE ELSBY Gregor Samsa’s Spots of Indeterminacy:
Kafka as Phenomenologist 33
KATARZYNA Metaphormosis: The Machinic Metaphor
SZAFRANOWSKA in Kafkian Animal Stories 51
MARKUS KOHL Kafka on the Loss of Purpose
and the Illusion of Freedom 69
MATTHEW WESTER Before Adolf Eichmann:
A Kafkian Analysis of the ‘Banality of Evil’ 91
IDO LEWIT “He Couldn’t Tell the Difference between The Merry Widow and Tristan and Isolde”:
Kafka’s Anti-Wagnerian Philosophy of Music 109
About the Contributors 125
