HORKHEIMER READS KUROSAWA. TWO TOO HUMAN ANTHROPOLOGIES

Abstract

This paper exposes the connection between two anthropologies that flee
from abstraction and show the most human aspects of the human being: the anthropologies
of Horkheimer and Kurosawa. The text will present the denunciation of the
instrumentalization of the contemporary era and the lack of individualization of the
subjects by both authors. We will defend the thesis that both Horkheimer and Kurosawa
promoted a type of ethics far from categorical imperatives or metaphysical duties, a
eudaemonist ethics based on the search for individual happiness. We will combine the
denunciation of the instrumentalization of the contemporary era with the defense of an individual who fights against his reification. Finally, we will give our personal opinion in the Conclusions section.