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Eugene Halton
teaches sociology and humanities 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 translations and Hungarian translation).

Here are some 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, Fall, 2005: Jumpin' Gene

* 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

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.

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.

Email address is ehalton@nd.edu

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