Presenting new developments in the field of global ethics, this volume focuses specifically on how to re-conceive ethics in order to come to grips with ethical and political life today. It sets out an agenda for the field of global ethics, addresses the critiques and illustrates the rapprochement of global ethics.

Wim Vandekerckhove, Ghent University, Belgium, M.S. Ronald Commers, Ghent University, Belgium and An Verlinden, Ghent University, Belgium.

Contents: Introduction, M.S. Ronald Commers, Wim Vandekerckhove and An Verlinden; Part I What is the Task of Global Ethics?: The new global ethics and its 3 faces, Carol C. Gould; Globalization between economism and moralism, Gérald Berthoud; Bridging the gaps in global ethics: grounded cosmopolitan praxis, Christien van den Anker; Justice in a world gone mad: assessing the ethical landscape of globalization, Rebecca Todd Peters. Part II Is Global Ethics Possible?: Global ethics and world citizenship, M.S. Ronald Commers; Why and what global ethics?, Heather Widdows; Cosmopolitanism and community, Nigel Dower; Community and society on a transnational scale, Peter Caws. Part III How Can We 'Do' Global Ethics?: Global poverty: development ethics meets global justice, Asunción Lera St. Clair; Reflections on global responsibilities and the nature of morality, Thomas Mertens; Global ethics as dialogism, An Verlinden; Redistributing global inequality: a thought experiment, József Böröcz; Index.