Johannes Bungenstab

Areas of Interest

Beyond his work on Blumenberg and Frisch, Johannes follows his interest in concepts of perspective, situatedness, and epistemological crises by reading and writing about Franz Kafka, Wolfgang Iser, Immanuel Kant, Gotthard Günther, and Hyman Minsky

Bio

Johannes joins Yale’s German Department as a Visiting Assistant in Research for the fall semester of 2024. He is currently working on his dissertation on “Hans Blumenberg’s hermeneutics” under the supervision of Petra Gehring and Dirk Rustemeyer at TU Darmstadt. The project intends to explore the similarities between Blumenberg’s publications on the history of philosophy and his phenomenological works, aiming to integrate both into a more comprehensive theory of Hans Blumenberg’s functionalist approach to philosophy. Prior, Johannes studied “Philosophy and cultural reflection” at Witten/Herdecke University, where he graduated with a master’s thesis on Max Frisch´s concepts of experience and knowledge.