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Eugene Halton
professor emeritus
Department of Sociology
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)
and
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
And coeditor, 2019:
Indigenous
Sustainable Wisdom:
First Nation Know-How for Global
Flourishing
Edited by Darcia Narvaez, Four Arrows, Brian Collier, Eugene Halton, and Georges Enderle.
New York:
Peter Lang Publishing.
And selected additional publications
other news:
Audio/Video
* Video from
Author Meets Critics Session on Halton's book, From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution,
sponsored by the Karl Jaspers Society of North America in conjunction with the
92nd Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Society, Pacific Division,
San Diego, March 31, 2018.
* Listen to Halton speaking at the Kansas City Public Library: Kansas
City Public Library, January 8, 2009
* Listen to Halton on WCUR Kansas City's The
Walt Bodine Show: Walt
Bodine Show Archives, 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
Print
Media
* An article on Halton by Bill Moor in the South Bend Tribune, Jumpin Gene Looks to New Heights After Retiring from Notre
Dame
May 17, 2020.
* Halton
interviewed by Brian Resnick of Vox 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
* 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, Fall, 2005: Jumpin'
Gene
* 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,
performing Got My Mojo
Working live.
Come celebrate The Newports
album release party, Live
at the Acorn, Saturday, Jul. 06,
2019 | 8:00pm ET (7:00pm CT). With Funky Mojo Daddy.
The Newports 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 "Smoke and
Mirrors" appear on the Rockin’ Johnny Burgin
CD, Neoprene Fedora, 2017.
Gene's lyrics for the song "Empty
Bed Blues" appear on the Rockin’ Johnny
Burgin CD, Greetings from Greaseland, released
in 2015.
Gene's lyrics for the song "Tow Truck Man"
appears on the Willie Buck CD on Delmark Records,
released in 2012.
Email
address
is ehalton@nd.edu