C. Jason Throop is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap (California, 2010), coeditor, with Keith M. Murphy, of Toward an Anthropology of the Will (Stanford, 2010), and coeditor, with Douglas Hollan, of The Anthropology of Empathy: Exploring the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies (Berghahn Press, 2004).

"This superb exploration of humans as concerned beings raises a key existential question central to both anthropology and philosophy: How do affectively charged experiences of ethical mattering permeate and shape human life in particular situations and communities? Throop, one of anthropology’s foremost phenomenologists, interweaves philosophical thinkers, especially Heidegger and Husserl, with anthropological thought, offering an innovative contribution to both phenomenology and ethics." - Cheryl Mattingly, Aarhus University and University of Southern California "On Human Concern stands to educate both philosophers and anthropologists about how much further we can go when we think together. It promises to intervene in the ontological turn in anthropology, in the fraught conversation about the is–ought distinction in ethical theory, and in even more fraught discussions of the place of humanity in the face of the human-made climate crisis that threatens the planet." - Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University, SUNY

C. Jason Throop is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap (California, 2010), coeditor, with Keith M. Murphy, of Toward an Anthropology of the Will (Stanford, 2010), and coeditor, with Douglas Hollan, of The Anthropology of Empathy: Exploring the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies (Berghahn Press, 2004).

"This superb exploration of humans as concerned beings raises a key existential question central to both anthropology and philosophy: How do affectively charged experiences of ethical mattering permeate and shape human life in particular situations and communities? Throop, one of anthropology’s foremost phenomenologists, interweaves philosophical thinkers, especially Heidegger and Husserl, with anthropological thought, offering an innovative contribution to both phenomenology and ethics." - Cheryl Mattingly, Aarhus University and University of Southern California "On Human Concern stands to educate both philosophers and anthropologists about how much further we can go when we think together. It promises to intervene in the ontological turn in anthropology, in the fraught conversation about the is–ought distinction in ethical theory, and in even more fraught discussions of the place of humanity in the face of the human-made climate crisis that threatens the planet." - Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University, SUNY

C. Jason Throop is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap (California, 2010), coeditor, with Keith M. Murphy, of Toward an Anthropology of the Will (Stanford, 2010), and coeditor, with Douglas Hollan, of The Anthropology of Empathy: Exploring the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies (Berghahn Press, 2004).

"This superb exploration of humans as concerned beings raises a key existential question central to both anthropology and philosophy: How do affectively charged experiences of ethical mattering permeate and shape human life in particular situations and communities? Throop, one of anthropology’s foremost phenomenologists, interweaves philosophical thinkers, especially Heidegger and Husserl, with anthropological thought, offering an innovative contribution to both phenomenology and ethics." - Cheryl Mattingly, Aarhus University and University of Southern California "On Human Concern stands to educate both philosophers and anthropologists about how much further we can go when we think together. It promises to intervene in the ontological turn in anthropology, in the fraught conversation about the is–ought distinction in ethical theory, and in even more fraught discussions of the place of humanity in the face of the human-made climate crisis that threatens the planet." - Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University, SUNY