Eugene Halton
Biographic Data
| ID | 245252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene Halton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene |
| FAMILY NAME | Halton |
| SIGNATURE | HALTON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Is God Sustainable
This essay approaches the “God is dead” theme by offering a new philosophical history addressing what would make belief in divinity, in God, sustainable and unsustainable. I claim that the death of nature and the death of God in the modern era are manifestations of a progressive distancing from a religious philosophy of the Earth that guided human development until the beginnings of civilization. I outline within the space limitations here a new …
Sociology's missed opportunity
In 1873, 75 years before Karl Jaspers published his theory of the Axial Age in 1949, unknown to Jaspers and to contemporary scholars today, Scottish folklorist John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated the first fully developed and nuanced theory of what he termed 'the Moral Revolution' to characterize the historical shift emerging roughly around 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, most notably ancient China, India, Judaism, and Greece, as part of…
Identity Dramas
Religion, Habitat, and Cosmos
Religions, as Stuart-Glennie conceived it, is rooted in intuitions and conceptions of causation, developed out of relations to the physical and social environments. This starting point allowed a perceptive, and experiential element to religion as expressive of life-experience, not simply of human sociality per se. Stuart-Glennie characterized the origins of religion as Panzoonist, literally "all life," and this chapter describes how he distinguis…
From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution
In 1873, John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated a theory of 'the moral revolution' to characterize the historical shift from roughly 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, as part of a critical theory
Real Social Science
Pragmatic E-Pistols
If pragmatists conceive of thought as an internal dialogue, then why not externalize that thought as a dialogue in the form of letters to the major pragmatists concerning their ideas in the contemporary world. This piece consists of letters fired off to William James, Charles Peirce, George Herbert Mead, and John Dewey, concerning key ideas from each and how these ideas relate to contemporary social thought. Queries are posed concerning what modi…
This Little Kiddy Went to Market
Freedom and Consumerism
Earth to Manning
Mind Matters
The conceit that either mind is reducible to matter or that mind is utterly ethereal is rooted in a mind-versus-matter dichotomy that can be characterized as the modern error, a fatally flawed fallacy rooted in the philosophy and culture of nominalism. A Peircean semiotic outlook, applied to an understanding of social life, provides a new and full-bodied understanding of semiosis as the bridge between mind and matter, and human biology and cultur…
The Living Gesture and the Signifying Moment
Drawing from Peircean semiotics, from the Greek conception of phronesis, and from considerations of bodily awareness as a basis of reasonableness, I attempt to show how the living gesture touches our deepest signifying nature, the self, and public life. Gestural bodily awareness, more than knowledge, connects us with the very conditions out of which the human body evolved into its present condition and remains a vital resource in the face of a de…
Signs, Solidarities, and Sociology
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Agency: Meaning, Perspectivism and Pragmatics Chapter 3 Social Power: The Signifying Context of Communicative Meaning Chapter 4 Empowerment: The Social Construction of the Self Chapter 5 Formal System: The Autopoietic Evolution of Pragmatic (Interpretant
The Semiautomatic Weapon as Text
The Culture of Spontaneity
Bereft of Reason
In this radical critique of contemporary social theory, Eugene Halton argues that both modernism and postmodernism are damaged philosophies whose acceptance of the myths of the mind/body dichotomy make them incapable of solving our social dilemmas
Inside Culture
Communicating democracy
Habermas and Rorty
The Reality of Dreaming
The Meaning of Things
The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique perspective on materialism, American culture, and the self. They begi…
Bereft of Reason
In this radical critique of contemporary social theory, Eugene Halton argues that both modernism and postmodernism are damaged philosophies whose acceptance of the myths of the mind/body dichotomy make them incapable of solving our social dilemmas
The Living Gesture and the Signifying Moment
Drawing from Peircean semiotics, from the Greek conception of phronesis, and from considerations of bodily awareness as a basis of reasonableness, I attempt to show how the living gesture touches our deepest signifying nature, the self, and public life. Gestural bodily awareness, more than knowledge, connects us with the very conditions out of which the human body evolved into its present condition and remains a vital resource in the face of a de…
The Reality of Dreaming
Habermas and Rorty
Real Social Science
Sociology's missed opportunity
In 1873, 75 years before Karl Jaspers published his theory of the Axial Age in 1949, unknown to Jaspers and to contemporary scholars today, Scottish folklorist John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated the first fully developed and nuanced theory of what he termed 'the Moral Revolution' to characterize the historical shift emerging roughly around 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, most notably ancient China, India, Judaism, and Greece, as part of…
Earth to Manning
The Meaning of Things
The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique perspective on materialism, American culture, and the self. They begi…
Habermas and Rorty
The Reality of Dreaming
Communicating democracy
Inside Culture
Bereft of Reason
In this radical critique of contemporary social theory, Eugene Halton argues that both modernism and postmodernism are damaged philosophies whose acceptance of the myths of the mind/body dichotomy make them incapable of solving our social dilemmas
The Culture of Spontaneity
The Semiautomatic Weapon as Text
Signs, Solidarities, and Sociology
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Agency: Meaning, Perspectivism and Pragmatics Chapter 3 Social Power: The Signifying Context of Communicative Meaning Chapter 4 Empowerment: The Social Construction of the Self Chapter 5 Formal System: The Autopoietic Evolution of Pragmatic (Interpretant
The Living Gesture and the Signifying Moment
Drawing from Peircean semiotics, from the Greek conception of phronesis, and from considerations of bodily awareness as a basis of reasonableness, I attempt to show how the living gesture touches our deepest signifying nature, the self, and public life. Gestural bodily awareness, more than knowledge, connects us with the very conditions out of which the human body evolved into its present condition and remains a vital resource in the face of a de…
Earth to Manning
Mind Matters
The conceit that either mind is reducible to matter or that mind is utterly ethereal is rooted in a mind-versus-matter dichotomy that can be characterized as the modern error, a fatally flawed fallacy rooted in the philosophy and culture of nominalism. A Peircean semiotic outlook, applied to an understanding of social life, provides a new and full-bodied understanding of semiosis as the bridge between mind and matter, and human biology and cultur…
Freedom and Consumerism
This Little Kiddy Went to Market
Pragmatic E-Pistols
If pragmatists conceive of thought as an internal dialogue, then why not externalize that thought as a dialogue in the form of letters to the major pragmatists concerning their ideas in the contemporary world. This piece consists of letters fired off to William James, Charles Peirce, George Herbert Mead, and John Dewey, concerning key ideas from each and how these ideas relate to contemporary social thought. Queries are posed concerning what modi…
Religion, Habitat, and Cosmos
Religions, as Stuart-Glennie conceived it, is rooted in intuitions and conceptions of causation, developed out of relations to the physical and social environments. This starting point allowed a perceptive, and experiential element to religion as expressive of life-experience, not simply of human sociality per se. Stuart-Glennie characterized the origins of religion as Panzoonist, literally "all life," and this chapter describes how he distinguis…
From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution
In 1873, John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated a theory of 'the moral revolution' to characterize the historical shift from roughly 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, as part of a critical theory
Real Social Science
Identity Dramas
Sociology's missed opportunity
In 1873, 75 years before Karl Jaspers published his theory of the Axial Age in 1949, unknown to Jaspers and to contemporary scholars today, Scottish folklorist John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated the first fully developed and nuanced theory of what he termed 'the Moral Revolution' to characterize the historical shift emerging roughly around 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, most notably ancient China, India, Judaism, and Greece, as part of…
Is God Sustainable
This essay approaches the “God is dead” theme by offering a new philosophical history addressing what would make belief in divinity, in God, sustainable and unsustainable. I claim that the death of nature and the death of God in the modern era are manifestations of a progressive distancing from a religious philosophy of the Earth that guided human development until the beginnings of civilization. I outline within the space limitations here a new …
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