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Hendel’s series of lectures were never published.
Hendel’s series of lectures were never published.
Charles William Hendel was born on 16 December 1890 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is credited with blending philosophy with the social sciences and liberal arts, creating one of the most outstanding programmes of its time. Lecturer in Philosophy at Williams College in 1919 at Princeton in 1920, he became Professor of Moral Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at McGill University in 1929. In 1940, he joined Yale as Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics and Chairman of the Philosophy department.
President of the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy from 1959 to 1961, he also served US Army infantry, reaching the rank of second lieutenant. Hendel published many translations and was joint author or editor of many philosophical works. Noted publications include Studies in the Philosophy of David Hume (1925), Contemporary Idealism in America (1932), Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Moralist (1934), Citizen of Geneva (1937), and Civilization and Religion (1948), The Philosophy of Kant and Our Modern World (1957), and John Dewey and the Experimental Spirit in Philosophy (1959).