In her Nobel speech in 2019, Olga Tokarczuk presented the category of tenderness as a new way of narrating the contemporary world. This article is a proposal for the analysis and interpretation of tenderness in ethical and aesthetic terms. (1) From an ethical perspective, tenderness is interpreted as an extension and complement of feminist relational ethics, i.e., the ethics of care. In the proposed approach, tenderness is a broader and more universal quality than care in the feminist understanding. This article opens with a brief discussion of feminist interventions in ethics, with particular emphasis on the ethics of care. Next, the differences between care and tenderness are enumerated and described, in order to show how tenderness can serve as an extension and complement of the feminist ethic of care. These considerations are guided by the question of why tenderness is a better—more appropriate and more responsive to contemporary challenges—moral guidepost than care. (2) From the aesthetic perspective, tenderness is the negation of a contemplative, distanced, impersonal, and rational view of reality. As an aesthetic imperative, tenderness implies engaged experience of the beauty of reality in all of its manifestations. Therefore, in the last part of the article, existential tender attunement is described in aesthetic terms, as a position serving to sensitize others to the beauty and complexity of the post-anthropocentric world.

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从女性主义关怀伦理到温柔调和：奥尔加·托卡尔丘克的温柔作为一种新的伦理和审美要求

在 2019 年的诺贝尔奖演讲中，奥尔加·托卡尔丘克 (Olga Tokarczuk) 提出了温柔这一范畴，将其作为一种讲述当代世界的新方式。这篇文章是从伦理和美学的角度分析和解释温柔的提议。(1)从伦理学的角度，温柔被解释为女性主义关系伦理学即关怀伦理学的延伸和补充。在提议的方法中，温柔比女权主义理解中的关怀更广泛、更普遍。本文首先简要讨论女性主义对伦理的干预，特别强调护理伦理。接下来，列举和描述关怀与温柔的区别，以说明温柔如何作为女性主义关怀伦理的延伸和补充。这些考虑是基于这样一个问题，即为什么温柔比关怀更好——更合适、更能应对当代挑战——道德指南。(2)从审美的角度看，柔情是对沉思的、疏远的、客观的、理性的现实观的否定。作为一种审美要求，温柔意味着对现实之美的所有表现形式的参与体验。因此，在文章的最后一部分，存在主义的温柔调和在美学术语中被描述为一种有助于使他人对后人类中心主义世界的美丽和复杂性敏感的立场。对现实的客观和理性的看法。作为一种审美要求，温柔意味着对现实之美的所有表现形式的参与体验。因此，在文章的最后一部分，存在主义的温柔调和在美学术语中被描述为一种有助于使他人对后人类中心主义世界的美丽和复杂性敏感的立场。对现实的客观和理性的看法。作为一种审美要求，温柔意味着对现实之美的所有表现形式的参与体验。因此，在文章的最后一部分，存在主义的温柔调和在美学术语中被描述为一种有助于使他人对后人类中心主义世界的美丽和复杂性敏感的立场。