Some Other Publications by Eugene Halton

 

2024

Is God Sustainable?

Philosophies 9 (4): 93. 2024.

Essay in special issue of the journal Philosophies on the theme of The Creative Death of God.

 

2023

The Truth About That Quiet Decade.

This essay from 1999, republished in Notre Dame Magazine online in July 2023, explores how the 1950s were a time of fundamental transformations in American society, a time when the United States went fully megatechnic.

 

2022

Afterword to Victor Turner's The Ritual Process, German Translation. Researchgate. January 31, 2022. This English manuscript version was shortened for the published translated version. Eugene Halton. 1989. Nachwort. Das Ritual: Struktur und Antistruktur. Victor Turner. Translated by Sylvia Schomberg-Scherff. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, pp. 198-213.

 

2022

Eugene Halton's Original Theory of the Extended Self Versus Russell Belk's Use of It. Researchgate, January, 2022. Originally presented to Culture and Consumption Seminar, University of Notre Dame, February 3, 2015.

 

2021

The Forgotten Earth: World Religions and Worldlessness in the Legacy of the Axial Age/Moral Revolution. In From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond. Edited by Said Arjomand and Stephen Kalberg. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, pp. 209-238.

 

2019

Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing. Edited by Darcia Narvaez, Four Arrows, Eugene Halton, Brian Collier, and Georges Enderle. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

 

2019

Darcia Narvaez, Four Arrows, Eugene Halton, Brian Collier and Georges Enderle. Chapter 1: People and Planet in Need of Sustainable Wisdom. Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing. Edited by Narvaez, Four Arrows, Halton, Collier, and Enderle. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2019.

 

2019

Eugene Halton. Chapter 3: Indigenous Bodies, Civilized Selves, and the Escape from the Earth. To appear in Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing. Edited by Narvaez, Four Arrows, Halton, Collier, and Enderle. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2019.

 

2019

The Axial Age, The Moral Revolution, and the Polarization of Life and Spirit. Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts. Volume 13, 2, 2018. Pp. 56-71. Author Meets Critics: Introduction and Responses to Critics. Book: Eugene Halton, From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution.

 

2019

John Stuart-Glennie's Lost Legacy. Forgotten Founders and Other Neglected Social Theorists. Edited by Christopher T. Conner, Nicholas Baxter, and David R. Dickens. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 11-26.

 

2017

Sociology's Missed Opportunity: John Stuart-Glennie's Lost Theory of the Moral Revolution, also Known as the Axial Age.

Journal of Classical Sociology. 17(3). Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1468795X17691434

 

2016

Music is Rhythm, Rhythm is Life: The Living Moment.

Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol 47: Symbolic Interactionist Takes on Music. Edited by Christopher J. Schneider, Joseph A. Kotarba. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group. Pp. 197-211.

 

2015

Spectacles of Consumption.

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies. Daniel Thomas Cook and J. Michael Ryan, eds. Chichester, UK: John Wiley& Sons, 189-190.

 

2014

The Degenerate Monkey.

In Charles S. Peirce in his Own Words: 100 years of Semiotics, Communication and Cognition. Edited by Torkild Thellefsen. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 245-251.

 

2014

From the Emergent Drama of Interpretation to Enscreenment.

In Ancestral Landscapes in Human Evolution:Culture, Childrearing and Social Wellbeing. Edited by Darcia Narvaez, Kristin Valentino, Agustin Fuentes, James McKenna and Peter Gray. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 307-330.

 

2013

Tale of the Evolutionary Drama of Symboling: a Dramaturgical Digression.

In The Drama of Social Life: A Dramaturgical Handbook. Charles Edgley, ed. Surrey: Ashgate press, 279-292.

 

2013

Planet of the Degenerate Monkeys.

In Planet of the Apes and Philosophy. Ed. John Huss. Chicago: Open Court Press, 279-292.

 

2012

Chicago Schools of Thought: Disciplines as Skewed Bureaucratized Intellect.

Sociological Origins. 8, 1: 5-14. [pdf]

 

2011

Pragmatic E-Pistols.European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy.

Symposium: Pragmatism and the Social Sciences: A Century of Influences and Interactions,3,2: 41-63. Click to read it

 

2011

Object Biographies.

Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Edited by Dale Southerton. New York: CQ Press.

 

2011

Consumer Socialization.

Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Edited by Dale Southerton. New York: CQ Press.

 

2011

De-Materialization.

Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Edited by Dale Southerton. New York: CQ Press.

 

2009

Preface: On Materialism.

Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches. Edited by Phillip Vannini. New York: Peter Lang: vi-xiii.

2008

Don't Worry. Be Happy. Be Very Happy.

Review of Gross National Happiness by Arthur C. Brooks, National Catholic Reporter, 7/11. Click to read it

 

2008

Mind Matters, Symbolic Interaction. Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring, 2008: 119-141Abstract

Earth to Manning: A Reply, Symbolic Interaction. Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring, 2008: 149-154.

 

Haiku for EATNIKS. Explorations in Consumer Culture Theory. Edited by John F. Sherry and Eileen Fischer. New York: Routledge: 215.

 

2007

Eden Inverted: On the Wild Self and the Contraction of Consciousness, The Trumpeter, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2007: 45-77. Click to read it

Kitsch Me if You Can, Doughboy, in Consumers, Commodities, & Consumption Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 1, Nov.  Click to read it

 

Eugene Halton and Joseph Rumbo, Membrane of the Self: Marketing, Boundaries, and the Consumer Incorporated Self. Consumer Culture Behavior. Edited by Russell Belk and John  Sherry. Oxford: Jai Press, 297-318.

 

2006

The Cosmic Fantasia of Life, in Integrative Learning and Action: a Call to Wholeness. Edited by David K. Scott. New York: Peter Lang: 91-114.

 

2005

Peircean Animism and the End of Civilization, Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2005): 135-166.

 

2004

Pragmatism. Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications: 595-599.

 

The Living Gesture and the Signifying Moment, Symbolic Interaction. Jan. 2004: 27(1): 89-113.

 

Preface to Understanding Lewis Mumford: A Guide for the Perplexed. By Kenneth R.Stunkel. Mellon. 

 

2003

The Cosmic Fantasia of Life. Mythen der Kreativitaet: Das Schoepferische zwischen Innovation und Hybris.Hg. von Annette Deschner, Oliver Krueger und Refika Sarioender. Frankfurt-am-Main, Verlag Otto Lembeck, 2003: 51-76.

 

2002

Le Suce-Cerveau. X-Alta, No. 6 <<Police et corps du texte>>, octobre, 2002, p. 145-159. Translation of Brain Suck, by Henri Vaugrand.

 

Selected earlier publications:

2001

The Semiautomatic Weapon as Text. Poem. In Cultural Studies Cultural Methodologies. 1: 4,  Nov, 2001: 488-489.

 

1992

The Reality of Dreaming. Theory, Culture, and Society, 9(3): 119-39. Click to read 

 

1989

An Unlikely Meeting of the Vienna School and the New York School. New Observations 72, 5-9.

 

1989

Mead Market or Slaughterhouse? Commentary in Symbolic Interaction. 12 Spring, 33-35. click to read it

 

1983

The Real Nature of Pragmatism and Chicago Sociology. Symbolic Interaction. 6, 1: 139-153. Click to read it

 

Other Commentaries, blogs, op-editorials:

 

2017.

Interviewed for article: 20 years later: 20 Years later: Cunanan, Versace, and Celebrity Culture. John Wilkens, San Diego Union Tribune, July 24, 2017

 

Nov. 28, 2011. Skype televised interview, Christmas and Consumerism: How and why are we Christmas consumers? University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. SIBE (Student Interactive Broadcast Entranet). Available on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjMcLIE8CFw&feature=player_detailpage#t=1883s

 

Blog Post: The Megapower Elite, Deliberately Considered. September 28, 2011. http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/09/the-megapower-elite/

 

Blog Post: Have You Ever Been Experienced? Deliberately Considered. August 11, 2011. http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/08/have-you-ever-been-experienced/

 

Blog Post: Where U At? Notre Dame Magazine. August 9, 2011. http://magazine.nd.edu/news/25421-where-u-at/

 

Op-ed: Recent op-ed on H1N1 flu leaves public ill-informed. South Bend Tribune, August 27, 2009.

 

The Walt Bodine Show, NPR Affiliate KCUR, Kansas City, MO, January 8, 2009. http://kcur.org/post/great-brain-suck

 

Notre Dame Expert: Materialism & Consumerism during Christmas, YouTube, Dec. 8, 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0QFrWR49uE

 

Interviewed for Tun In, Turn On, Drop Lots of Cash. Lauren Fitzpatrick, Southtown Star, Nov. 23, 2008.

 

Interviewed for Halton Unclogs 'Great Brain Suck,' South Bend Tribune, September 27, 2008.

Available online at: http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2008-09-28/news/26907982_1_atomic-bomb-consumerism-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

 

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