How to Read Philosophy #5: Reading While Drunk

Is drunkenness the enemy of philosophical sobriety? Or are there circumstances where drunkenness can make our philosophical insight keener?

Will Buckingham
9 min readJun 10, 2022

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Au Moulin de la Galette by Ramon Casas. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Philosophers Behaving Badly?

The philosopher Simone de Beauvoir was a big fan of philosophising while drunk

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Will Buckingham

Writer & philosopher. PhD. Stories & ideas to make the world a better place. HELLO, STRANGER (Granta 2021): BBC R4 Book of the Week. Twitter @willbuckingham