Abstract Hans Blumenberg ends his last book, Höhlenausgänge (Cave Exits) with a coda, entitled “Another Myth,” composed solely of a cave story quoted verbatim from the Babylonian Talmud, to which he adds not a word of his own. This ‘performative act of silence’ raises the general issue of silence in Blumenberg’s thought. Despite the many variants of the cave story recounted in the Höhlenausgänge, I argue, three stand out as paradigmatic cave stories. The first is the speculative prehistoric cave story with which the book opens, which seeks to imaginatively reconstruct the beginning of human culture; I call this “Blumenberg’s cave.” The second is Plato’s cave allegory, the reception history of which can be read as Blumenberg’s version of the history of philosophy. The third is the Talmudic version of the cave story, which could have been, but wasn’t, presented as a moment in the reception history of Plato’s cave. Blumenberg’s point of silence about the Talmudic cave story endows it with hermeneutic significance, and renders the concept of silence a key that helps unlock the Höhlenausgänge’s overall argument.

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沉默、非概念性和怀疑主义：Höhlenausgänge 的尾声

摘要 Hans Blumenberg 在他的最后一本书 Höhlenausgänge（Cave Exits）结尾处以一个题为“另一个神话”的结尾，完全由一个从巴比伦塔木德中逐字引用的洞穴故事组成，其中他没有添加任何自己的词。这种“沉默的表演行为”引发了布鲁门伯格思想中的普遍沉默问题。尽管在 Höhlenausgänge 中叙述了许多不同的洞穴故事，但我认为，其中三个是典型的洞穴故事。第一个是本书开篇的思辨史前洞穴故事，试图以想象的方式重构人类文化的起源；我称之为“布鲁门伯格洞穴”。第二个是柏拉图的洞穴寓言，它的接受史可以理解为布鲁门伯格的哲学史版本。第三个是塔木德版本的洞穴故事，它可能是，但不是，作为柏拉图洞穴接待历史中的一个时刻。布鲁门伯格关于塔木德洞穴故事的沉默点赋予了它解释学的意义，并使沉默的概念成为帮助解开 Höhlenausgänge 整体论点的关键。