Indeed, knowing how to recognize well-being in the other, let alone actively pursuing it, is certainly be a higher bar. This model, “entangled empathy,” suggests that the interlocutor recognizes herself in a “complicated set of relations.” If this philosopher friend is indeed Gruen, this concept was born of an interest in improving the relationship between humans and other animals, and is about attending to another’s sense of well-being. Three quarters of the way through Just Us: An American Conversation, Claudia Rankine considers three different understandings of the word “conversation.” The first, from a Latinx artist (unnamed) discussing her reluctance to play oppression Olympics with people of other races or ethnicities, is that conversation describes a “reciprocation of understanding.” Rankine balks at the impatience implied by a demand to be understood, but nonetheless acknowledges that at least this definition is immanently achievable.Īnother definition, offered by a philosopher friend (who, though also unnamed, may be the activist Lori Gruen), seems decidedly less so.
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