Fred E. Baumann came to Kenyon as director of the Public Affairs Conference Center and part-time teacher of Political Science in 1980, entering the department full-time in 1986. He teaches courses in the history of political philosophy, politics and literature, diplomatic history and statesmanship as well as PSCI 101-102. The author of Fraternity and Politics: Choosing One's Brothers , Baumann is now working on a book on the status of political humanism. He is an associate editor of the journal Interpretation, and has served as chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee. Baumann received the Senior Faculty Trustee Teaching Award and was invited to give the Founders' Day talk.

Education

Ph.D. History, Harvard University
B.A. Cornell University

Selected Publications

"Aesthetic Education in The Magic Flute ," chapter Secularism and the Enlightenment , ed. Christopher Nadon, Lexington Books, 2013, pp. 325-337.

"The Dawn of Political History," a course of eight recorded lectures on Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Recorded Books, 2012.

"Humanism and Transhumanism," The New Atlantis, 29, Fall, 2010, pp. 68-84

"Humanism's Four Stages," The American Interest, September-October 2010, pp. 83-93.

"Schiller on Aesthetic Education: Radicalization by Return," in Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle, Lexington Books, 2010, pp. 325-343.

"Visions of Utopia: Philosophy and the Perfect Society," a course of fourteen recorded lectures, Recorded Books, 2008.

"Raymond Aron and Jean-Paul Sartre," in The Enduring Influence and Relevance of Raymond Aron's Political Reasoning, Daniel Mahoney and Brian-Paul Frost, Transaction Publishers, 2007.

Fraternity and Politics: Choosing One's Brothers (Praeger, 1998).

Courses Taught

PSCI 101-102: The Quest for Justice
PSCI 220: The Classical Quest for Justice
PSCI 221: The Modern Quest for Justice
PSCI 321: Political Theory and Political Practice
PSCI 323: Politics and Literature
PSCI 365: International Terrorism
PSCI 422: Thucydides: War and Philosophy
PSCI 426: Humanism and its Critics
PSCI 427: The Political Philosophy of Montaigne
PSCI 428: Nietzsche and Political Philosophy
PSCI 491: Politics of the Bible
PPOL 440: Senior Seminar in Public Policy