Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
May 5, 2026
T. Mukhopadhyay, Victor Hugo Jimenez Arredondo
“Technoexistentialism” may be defined as the most well-known West-centric existentialist definition of technology. We assume that the industrial project of defining technology and of coming to terms with it was first broached by Heidegger. We can indeed claim that there is a dialectical spiritualization of the forms of existential life in the writings of 19th century philosophers, starting with...
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
August 14, 2023
Aayushee Garg
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The present research article undertakes a comprehensive examination of contrasting approaches to language and meaning, topics that have engendered contemplation and discourse across a range of disciplines including literature, philosophy, and linguistics. The article commences by delving into the foundational disparities between Indian and Western literary theories concerning the intricate...
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
May 6, 2018
Rocco Angelo Astore
The 17 th -century Rationalist philosopher, Descartes, famously uttered "cogito ergo sum," or "I think; therefore, I am." (1980, 61).Although this declaration caused an irreversible shift in philosophical thought, does it genuinely capture the bond between the nature of existence and consciousness?This essay will commence with an overview of Descartes's method of doubt, and why it led him to...
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
December 11, 2017
Ádám Lovász
In my article I seek to uncover the spiritual content underlying the 2015 slasher film, Headless.The film in question portrays a psychotic serial killer who beheads his female victims.Working through the disturbing content, I seek to unpack an "atheology", to use Georges Bataille's expression and argue that we must see beyond the graphic violence to understand the spirituality of the slasher...
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
August 18, 2017
Mohammad Shalauddin, Mohammed Shamsul Hoque, Touhid Bhuiyan
This study aims at analyzing image schemas (Johnson, 1987) and stages of grief (Kubler-Ross, 1969) in Tagore's near-death experience (NDE) poems written in the last ninety days before his death.Selected verses of the period in question are analyzed using benchmarks set by Johnson and Kubler-Ross.Relation between the schemas and some linguistic forms, themes and moods of these poems are also...