Fred Baumann

Fred E. Baumann is an American political philosopher and professor at Kenyon College where he was the Harry M. Clor Professor of Political Science. He is known for his work on humanism, punishment, fraternity, and political reciprocity.

Books Fraternity and Politics: Choosing One's Brothers, Bloomsbury Academic, 1998 Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: Essays (ed.), Kenyon College, 1982 Democratic Capitalism?: Essays in Search of a Concept (ed.), University Press of Virginia, 1986 American Defense Policy and Liberal Democracy, edited with Kenneth M. Jensen, University Press of Virginia, 1989 Crime and Punishment: Issues in Criminal Justice, edited with Kenneth M. Jensen, University Press of Virginia, 1989 Religion and Politics, edited with Kenneth M. Jensen, University Press of Virginia, 1989 Philosophy and Law: Essays Toward the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors, Leo Strauss, English trans. by Fred Baumann (of Philosophie und Gesetz, 1935.) Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1987 Essays on Politics and Contemporary Human (in Persian), Tehran: Naqde Farhang, 2025