Category: Analyses
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The Modern Tragic Condition
by Brenton L. Delp MFT “Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,And thou no breath at all?” King Lear (5.3.306–307) Shakespeare’s World: Between Ontological Order and Interior Fracture William Shakespeare stands at the hinge of epochs. He writes in a world that still names God publicly, still speaks the language of providence,…
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The Absolute After Transcendence
By Brenton L. Delp Table of Contents I. Introduction: Addiction After Transcendence (pp. 1–2) II. Christianity and the Historical Completion of the Absolute (pp. 2–3) III. Technology as the Operational Absolute (pp. 3–4) IV. Born Man: Subjectivity After Transcendence (pp. 4–5) V. Addiction as Micro-Absolute (pp. 5–6) VI. Why the Term Born Man Is Necessary…
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Why Metaphysics Did Not Disappear —
It Became Psychological, Technological, and Addictive Western Metaphysics Part I By Brenton L. Delp (2026) Abstract This essay offers a historical–diagnostic genealogy of metaphysics understood not as a sequence of superseded doctrines, but as a transforming logic that repeatedly relocates its site of operation. Beginning with Aristotle’s articulation of metaphysics as first philosophy, the argument…
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After the Fall of Substance
By Brenton L. Delp Metaphysics, Sexual Difference, Depth Psychology, and the Addictive Logic of Modernity Western Metaphysics Part II I. The Labor of Ontological Stabilization The following argument presupposes the structural development traced in History of Western Metaphysics. That volume examined the construction and completion of metaphysical stability. The present work turns to what that…