La nueva Ilustración Evolucionista: La gran borrachera de la civilización
“En el libro Drunk (traducido por la Editorial Debate al español: Borrachos), el filósofo y sinólogo Edward Slingerland expone esta sorprendente hipótesis, apoyado en un conjunto de evidencias extraídas de estudios antropológicos y paleoantropológicos, arqueológicos, históricos, literarios, sociológicos, psicológicos y neurocientíficos, etológicos y evolucionistas. ”
“La Gran Borrachera De La Civilización,” La Nueva Ilustración Evolucionista, October 12, 2022
La Stampa: Recensione di Sbronzi
“Recensione di Manuela Stefanelli”
Manuela Stefanelli, “Recensione,” La Stampa
The Objective: 'Borrachos': no hay civilización sin intoxicación
“Desde las primeras líneas ... descubrí la ágil, fresca y cómica prosa de Slingerland, que maridaba a las mil maravillas con información contrastada y enriquecedora.”
Galo Abrain, “'Borrachos': no hay civilización sin intoxicación,” The Objective, October 10, 2022
The JoongAng: 술은 진화의 실수? 문명 탄생 기폭제였다
“『취함의 미학(Drunk)』에는 술을 비롯한 취성(醉性)물질의 역사와 의미가 총망라돼 있다. 인류와 불가분의 관계에 놓인 술에 대해서 알고 싶다면 그냥 이 책을 열고 술의 세계로 빠져들어 가기만 하면 된다. ”
한경환, “술은 진화의 실수? 문명 탄생 기폭제였다,” The JoongAng, October 1, 2022
El Confidencial: 'Homo ebrius': por qué los seres humanos bebemos como piojos (y hacemos bien)
“El filósofo Edward Slingerland publica ‘Borrachos’ (Deusto), una desopilante historia de la relación entre nuestra especie y el alcohol a lo largo de los siglos con sorprendentes y etílicas conclusiones”
Daniel Arjona, “'Homo ebrius': por qué los seres humanos bebemos como piojos (y hacemos bien),” El Confidencial, September 27, 2022
El Mundo: El poder del alcohol - cómo las borracheras explican la historia de las grandes civilizaciones
“Edward Slingerland asegura que nuestro gusto por los intoxicantes químicos no es un error evolutivo, sino que beber, aunque sea malo para la salud y provoque violencia, resuelve numerososo desafíos sociales. “Todas las civilizaciones han buscado alterar puntualmente la consciencia” , dice”
Jorge Benítez, “El poder del alcohol: cómo las borracheras explican la historia de las grandes civilizaciones,” El Mundo, September 26, 2022
Il Giornale: Il lungo successo alcolico dell’uomo. Il "primate" della sbronza creativa
“Il saggio di Edward Slingerland ripercorre il lungo percorso che la nostra specie ha compiuto nei secoli, per lo più da ubriaca.”
Matteo Sacchi, “Il lungo successo alcolico dell’uomo. Il "primate" della sbronza creativa,” Il Giornale, June 26, 2022
Financial Review: Want to know why we drink? Read these books
“Engaging, funny – slightly confronting at times, and not perhaps what you’d expect from a book on booze ... His impassioned, clear-eyed argument “that, despite all the trouble he inevitably brings in his wake, we still need Dionysus to play a role in our lives”, is compelling, timely, and well worth reading.”
Max Allen, “Want to know why we drink? Read these books,” Financial Review, April 28, 2022
Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture: Review of Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
“A narrative running in at just under 300 pages of fact-filled, thought-provoking, humorous and engaging prose, telling a rich story of alcohol in human social life. This is a book you will recommend to anyone who not only enjoys a drink but wonders about its evolutionary and cultural history, about the health pros and cons of alcohol, about whether alcohol should be welcomed or banned at the office party.”
Peter Gray, “Review of Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization,” Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, April 12, 2022.
World of Fine Wine
“It is precisely because altered states can be accorded the dignity of a wellnigh indispensable status in human experience that philosophizing about them is not the barfly’s prattle that it might seem.”
Walton, Stuart. “A superb panoramic study of intoxication and its importance,” World of Fine Wine 74: 52-54 (December 2021)