Category: Analyses
Longer essays that examine particular texts, films, figures, and cultural expressions through the interpretive framework of the project.
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Jung, Hegel and the Problem of Opposites
by Brenton L. Delp The comparison between Hegel and Jung becomes most interesting precisely at the point where easy comparison fails. At first glance they can seem to be confronting the same fundamental issue. Both are preoccupied with opposition. Both reject one-sidedness. Both believe that truth does not lie on one side of a division…
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The Modern Tragic Condition and the Daimōn of Shakespeare
by Brenton L. Delp Abstract: This essay reads Shakespeare and modern cinema as witnesses to metaphysical instability after symbolic certainty begins to fail. Through Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and later films such as Blade Runner, Se7en, and 12 Monkeys, it argues that modern life is marked by tragic lucidity: anxiety, acceleration, loneliness, exhaustion, and the…
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The Absolute After Transcendence
by Brenton L. Delp Abstract: This paper develops a genealogical account of addiction, ethics, and subjectivity in the wake of the historical completion of transcendence. Drawing on Hegel, Jung, Wolfgang Giegerich, biblical ethics, and clinical psychology, it argues that modern addiction is not a contingent pathology but a structurally necessary response to technological civilization, in…
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Why Metaphysics Did Not Disappear
Western Metaphysics Part I 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Delp (2026) Abstract This essay offers a historical–diagnostic genealogy of metaphysics understood not as a sequence of superseded doctrines, but as a transforming logic that repeatedly relocates its site of operation.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 traces the progressive internalization, abstraction, and displacement…
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After the Fall of Substance
Western Metaphysics Part II by Brenton L. Delp Abstract: After the Fall of Substance argues that modern addiction cannot be adequately understood as a purely clinical, moral, or neurochemical phenomenon, but must be interpreted as the historical afterlife of completed Western metaphysics. Building upon the ontological stabilization traced in History of Western Metaphysics, this essay…