Cosmopolitan responsibility : global injustice relational equality and individual agency Frontmatter Acknowledgements Contents Introduction: The challenge. Global injustice and the individual agent Part I. The cosmopolitan ethos Chapter 1. Cosmopolitanism. The ideal of global justice past and present Chapter 2. Equality. Towards global relational egalitarianism Chapter 3. Pragmatism. Practice and the possibility of progress Part II. Challenges Chapter 4. Impact. Do my acts matter Chapter 5. Impartiality. The fragmentation of morality Chapter 6. Imperfection. Overdemandingness and the inevitability of moral failure Conclusion. The ethos of cosmopolitan responsibility Bibliography Index The world we live in is unjust. Preventable deprivation and suffering shape the lives of many people while others enjoy advantages and privileges aplenty. Cosmopolitan responsibility addresses the moral responsibilities of privileged individuals to take action in the face of global structural injustice. Individuals are called upon to complement institutional efforts to respond to global challenges such as climate change unfair global trade or world poverty. Committed to an ideal of relational equality among all human beings the book discusses the impact of individual action the challenge of special obligations and the possibility of moral overdemandingness in order to lay the ground for an action guiding ethos of cosmopolitan responsibility. This thought provoking book will be of interest to any reflective reader concerned about justice and responsibilities in a globalised world. Jan Christoph Heilinger is a moral and political philosopher. He teaches at Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich Germany and at Ecole normale supérieure Port au Prince Haiti