Ethical Systems: A Philosopher’s Toast to Getting drunk
“Drunk is filled to the brim with references to the workplace. According to author Edward Slingerland, appreciating alcohol’s ancient roots can help us think more clearly about what role drinking should play in our professional lives. ”
Max Beilby, “A Philosopher’s Toast to Getting Drunk,” Ethical Systems, November 5, 2021
Sydney Morning Herald: “Slingerland’s compelling arguments – anthropological, archaeological, literary and statistical – make Drunk as seductive as a pina colada on a beach in Tahiti.”
“Slingerland argues (while referencing the work of many others, including mind-manipulation advocates William James and Aldous Huxley), that the human brain, while an instrument of colossal complexity and capability, is inherently driven to alter its perception of itself.”
Pat Sheil, “How having a drink helped us toward art, society and civilisation,” Sydney Morning Herald, October 29, 2021.
The Province: Alcohol’s role in communal connection, creativity gets a toast in UBC prof’s new book
“This enlightening and scientific book, which explains how alcohol has lubricated innovation and social trust through history, is a breath of unconventionality, and even risk-taking, in a North American society (and academia) that is increasingly fixating on puritanism, “safetyism” and orthodoxy of opinion.”
Douglas Todd, “Alcohol’s role in communal connection, creativity gets a toast in UBC prof’s new booke,” The Province, September 23, 2021
Handelsblatt: Alkohol im Arbeitsumfeld ist heute out – dabei war er historisch nicht unwichtig
“Wenn man heute ein Glas Wein in Anwesenheit von Geschäftspartnern ordern würde, würde man sich sofort dem Verdacht aussetzen, harter Alkoholiker zu sein”
Tillmann Prüfer, “Alkohol im Arbeitsumfeld ist heute out – dabei war er historisch nicht unwichtigtle,” Handelsblatt, September 18, 2021
Der Landbote: Weshalb wir uns öfter betrinken sollten
“Slingerlands Argument lautet, dass wir Trinken nicht als evolutionären Irrweg betrachten sollen, sondern als grundlegend für das Fortbestehen der menschlichen Zivilisation.”
Pascal Blum, “TiWeshalb wir uns öfter betrinken solltene,” Der Landbote, September 9, 2021
Berner zeitung: Weshalb wir uns öfter betrinken sollten
“Slingerlands Argument lautet, dass wir Trinken nicht als evolutionären Irrweg betrachten sollen, sondern als grundlegend für das Fortbestehen der menschlichen Zivilisation”
Pascal Blum, “Weshalb wir uns öfter betrinken sollten,” Berner Zeitung, September 19, 2021
Club Oenologique: Top summer reads for food and drink lovers
“Why do we drink alcohol? More to the point, why do we like to get drunk, or intoxicated if you prefer? It’s the question that sits at the heart of Edward Slingerland’s fascinating, engagingly written new book about our favourite drug.”
Tim Atkin et al., “Top summer reads for food and drink lovers,” Club Oenologique, August 15, 2021
Infobae: Edward Slingerland: “Embriagarse ayudó al hombre a construir la civilización”
“El filósofo estadounidense reconstruye en su libro la relación del hombre con el alcohol a través de la historia y su rol como facilitador de los vínculos sociales. Cuál es la principal diferencia en el tipo de consumo que creó los problemas de alcoholismo”
Samuel Losada Iriarte, “Edward Slingerland: 'Embriagarse ayudó al hombre a construir la civilización',” Infobae, August 15, 2021
الخمر صانع الإبداع الإسلامي :Raseef 22
“ليس من قبيل الصدفة، أن المنافسة القوية بين الجماعات الثقافية التي نشأت منها الحضارات، ارتبطت بالخمر والنبيذ، سواء في الإنتاج أو الاستهلاك، وسبب هذا الحضور كونها كانت الأداة الكيميائية التي سمحت للبشر بالتهرب من الحدود التي تفرضها طبيعتهم (الحيوانية)، وخلق مستويات اجتماعية تعاونية ساهمت في تسريع البناء الحضاري.”
عثمان أمكور, “الخمر صانع الإبداع الإسلامي,” Raseef 22, August 3, 2021
The spectator: Our need to get drunk in company may be innate
“Edward Slingerland’s Drunk is self-consciously ‘haunted’ by that Lancet study — ‘the terrible document that concluded definitively that the only safe level of alcohol consumption was zero’. Slingerland aims to tell a vindicatory story about intoxication, its adaptive value for societies and individuals, and its continued indispensability to contemporary life.”
John Maier, “Our Need to Get Drunk In Company May Be Innate,” The Spectator, July 24, 2021