Biography of Richard Kamber

Richard Kamber is Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. He served for fifteen years as dean or vice president at three colleges and for seven years as chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at The College of New Jersey. He has written books on Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and William James.

His published articles cover a wide range of subjects including aesthetics, existentialism, education, film, and the Holocaust. He is the author of “Sartre and Goldhagen on Eliminationist Anti Semitism,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Fall 1999; “The Logic of the Goldhagen Debate,” Res Publica, 2000; and “Historical Sociology and the Reconstruction of the Holocaust,” forthcoming in Social Interaction: Readings of Sociology, St. Martin’s Press, Sixth Edition.

His presentations include: “Mass Murder in Unlikely Places: Chilean Exceptionalism and the Safeguard of German Culture” at the Congreso Genocidio, Buenos Aires November, 2007; “The Holocaust in Comparative Perspective” and “Rethinking the Concept of Genocide” (with Mort Winston), at the International Association of Genocide Scholars, June 2005, “An Explanatory Model for Genocide and the Explicability of the Holocaust” at the Genocide Conference, Fordham University, July 2004; “The Logic of the Goldhagen Debate,” Society for Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust, American Philosophical Association, May 1999; “Goldhagen and Sartre on Eliminationist Antisemitism: False Beliefs and Moral Blame,” Society for Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust, American Philosophical Association, May 1998; “Madness and Authority: The Epistemological Roots of the Holocaust,” Hebrew University, Jerusalem, December 1997; "Goldhagen and Sartre on Eliminationist Antisemitism," Hebrew University, Jerusalem, December 1996.

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