The Logic of Addiction

A Civilizational Diagnosis of Modern Consciousness

Orientation

The project may be entered through the navigation above or through its central argument below.

Begin with the essays below. They provide the clearest path into the project’s central argument.

This project begins from addiction, but its larger subject is the civilizational and historical condition of modern consciousness. The essays below offer the clearest path into the argument: addiction as symptom, metaphysics as relocated burden, treatment after the collapse of consoling worlds, and the historical-psychological condition of the modern subject.