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Eugene
Halton
is a professor in
the Department of Sociology and American Studies at the University of Notre
Dame
He is the author of:
The Great Brain Suck
(University of Chicago
Press, 2008)
Bereft of Reason (University of Chicago Press, 1995,
paperback, 1997)
Meaning and Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 1986)
and coauthor with M. Csikszentmihalyi
of:
The Meaning of
Things, an
enlarged version of Halton’s dissertation
Cambridge University Press, 1981
Also in German, Italian, Japanese and
Hungarian translations
Here are selected additional publications.
News:
* A blog entry from
September 28, 2011 on The Megapower Elite
* A blog entry from August
9, 2011 at Notre Dame Magazine on Where U At?
* Halton reading his poem Keystrokes
at a 2011 poetry marathon sponsored by Artpost.
* An Op-ed on Swine or
"NAFTA" flu, responding to Indiana Health officials: Recent
op-ed on H1N1 flu leaves public ill-informed
* Listen to Halton on WCUR Kansas City's The Walt Bodine Show: Walt
Bodine Show Archives, January 8, 2009
* Listen to Halton speaking at the Kansas City Public Library: Kansas
City Public Library, January 8, 2009
* See Halton interviewed on Christmas and Materialism,
2008. And also in 2011: Christmas
and Consumerism
* Hear Halton on the
National Public Radio show The Connection, speaking with Tom Litton from the
self storage industry
and
host Dick Gordon on the theme of "Storing the Self," from August 25,
2003: Storing
the Self
* Read an essay from Notre Dame Magazine, "Spent," by John
Monczunski, who visited Halton's class on
materialism: Spent
* And another visit to the class by English actor Paul McCleary: British
Actors Make the Classroom Their Stage
* And a short piece on
Halton from The Bend Magazine
* From Jumpin’ Gene’s early high jumping and
protest days, 40 years later, May, 2010: Tin Soldiers
and Nixon Coming
Music:
Halton has
also performed blues harmonica internationally. Click here for info on and
samples of
Jumpin' Gene's music
Gene’s song “Tow Truck Man” appears on the recent Willie
Buck CD on Delmark Records released in November,
2012.
Jumpin’ Gene sitting in with the Rickey Nye Trio and Tom Moore
at Quincy’s Café, Feb. 3, 2013. Gene and Tom
get into a call and response harmonica dialogue on Sonny Boy Williamson’s Eyesight
to the Blind
And here for a performance at Buddy Guy’s Legends
in Chicago with the legendary performer, The Tail Dragger: Don't Start me Talkin'
Biographies:
* You can read a brief
biographical statement here about the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce,
the founder of pragmatism and the doctrine of signs known as
semeiotic.
* And here is a
brief biographical sketch of Lewis Mumford , another American
original, who Malcolm Cowley called, “the last of the great
humanists.”
* Another brief
statement is on Charles
Morris
, a philosopher associated with semiotics, pragmatics, and George Herbert
Mead's work.
Email
address
is ehalton@nd.edu
Eugene Halton