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Eugene
Halton
is professor in
the Department of Sociology
and concurrent professor of American
Studies at the University of Notre Dame
He is the author of:
From
the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution:
John Stuart-Glennie, Karl Jaspers, and a New
Understanding of the Idea
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
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)
The Meaning of Things, coauthor with M. Csikszentmihalyi
(Cambridge University Press, 1981) an enlarged version of Halton's dissertation
Also in German, Italian, Japanese and
Hungarian translations
Here are selected additional publications.
News:
* Halton interviewed on Why objects can be more meaningful gifts than experiences
December 23, 2016.
* Halton's contribution, What
Could Possibly Go Wrong? to wallethub.com debate
on the theme of Will Donald Trump be a Good President? December 15, 2016
* Rockne on the Move. Money is
no object when it comes to moving quarter of a million dollar football coach
statues at Notre Dame for single games.
South Bend
Tribune photo by Halton.
* Halton reading his Fantasia on the Semi-Automatic Weapon
at the Acorn Theater Open Mike, June 30, 2016.
* Notre Dame Magazine, Winter
"Lists" issue, 2015, Eugene Halton, 10
Signs the Apocalypse is Upon Us.
* "Not
Free": An op-ed on the militarization of the police, submitted June
28, 2014, before Ferguson incident, published August 26, 2014, South Bend Tribune.
* Interviewed on
Huffington Post Live, November 25, 2013, on Thanksgiving
Becomes a National Shopping Day
* 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 from 2009, 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
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.
Music:
Halton has
also performed blues harmonica internationally. Click here for info on and
samples of
Jumpin'
Gene's music
Gene playing with The Newports,
whose Facebook page is: The Newports
And with The Newports at
The Jazz Showcase in downtown Chicago, Aug. 24, 2015: Shotgun, Tequila, Cold
Shot
And here for a performance at Buddy Guy's Legends
in Chicago in 2008 with the legendary performer, The Tail Dragger: Don't Start
me Talkin'
Gene's lyrics for the song "Empty Bed Blues"
appear on the Rockin Johnny Burgin CD, Greetings from Greaseland, released in March, 2015.
Gene's lyrics for the song "Tow Truck Man"
appears on the Willie
Buck CD on Delmark Records released in November,
2012.
Email
address
is ehalton@nd.edu
Eugene Halton