Eugene Halton

EUGENE HALTON is professor of Sociology and American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He writes on materialism and modern life, possessions and home life, consumption as socialization, philosophical pragmatism, literature as social thought, and the history of consciousness.

In addition to his most recent book, he has written Bereft of Reason (1995) and Meaning and Modernity (1986), also with the University of Chicago Press, and coauthored of The Meaning of Things (1981, Cambridge University Press), which has been translated into German, Italian, Japanese, and Hungarian.