Eugene Halton
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Eugene Halton lives in South Bend, Indiana, where he teaches sociology and humanities at The University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Great Brain Suck (University of Chicago Press, 2008) as well as 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 (Cambridge University Press, 1981, also in German and Italian translations, and a forthcoming Japanese translation). Here are some additional publications.

News:
Click to hear Halton on the National Public Radio show The Connection, speaking with 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, with comments from Halton and a description of Halton's course 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

Courses:
      Here is a sample syllabus of an experimental arts and letters core course, "Making the Modern Material World," first offered in the Fall of 2000 Core Course.
      And a course first offered Spring, 2003 on The Body.
      A description of a graduate seminar on Interpretation, another on Consumption Studies, and Cultural Studies, an undergraduate course on the fifties, and one on  The Blues .

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.

Commentaries and Observations:
Memory and Oblivion in Berlin (Oct., 2004)

The Passion of the Living-Dead (March23, 2005).

Here is a brief commentary on The Fat Content of Mammon, from August, 2001

A post-September 11 commentary on the Home Front .

Music:
Halton has also performed blues harmonica internationally. Click here for info on and samples of Jumpin' Gene's music

Email address is Eugene.W.Halton.2@nd.edu

Wednesday July 10, 2002
Eugene Halton facing the gates of
Socrates' prison cell
which faces the Acropolis
Athens, Greece