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Eugene
Halton
teaches sociology
and humanities at The University of Notre Dame
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
* 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