Arne Johan Vetlesen Ours is the era of globalisation. This means that the world is expanding; pressing a key, I can immediately reach persons living in another continent; products travel across the world to the store just around the corner from me; thanks to modern media, I am cognisant of events taking place right now thousands of kilometers away. The world is expanding in the sense that yesterday's time-space limits are rendered irrelevant; my communications, my needs, my aspirations, transcend all such givens. Whatever confronts me as part of my here-and-now, as making up my present contextuality, I can - and will - easily transcend and leave it behind. That the world is expanding means I am expanding, insofar as my range of action, my horizon for thinking, indeed for existing, is perpetually expanding. Expansion as such is forever-happening; it is without limits. This is what we are being told about the nature of globalisation. It rings true; or more to the point, it sounds trivial. But perhaps it is neither. Let's make a new start. Ours is the era of globalisation. This means that the world is shrinking. It is becoming smaller and smaller. It imposes itself upon me, wherever I go, whatever I undertake to do. It exerts all kinds of pressure from all kinds of directions, on all kinds of levels: psychologically no less than physically.

1. Responsibility; Preface;Arne Johan Vetlesen.- 2. Responsibility in Context; Introduction; Gorana Ognjenovic.- 3. Question of Responsibility, A Philosophical Exchange with Zygmunt Bauman;Gorana Ognjenovic.- 4. Paradoxes in Kant''s Account of Citizenship;Ronald Beiner.- 5. Political Autonomy and Moral Self-Understanding;Stale Finke.- 6. Respponsibility and Global Labor Justice;Iris Marion Young.- 7. A Theory of Indifference; Keith Tester.- 8. Media, ByStandars, and Actors;Zygmunt Bauman.- 9. Temporality, and Culture of Modernity;Espen Hammer.- 10. Moral Responsibility for Others;Gorana Ognjenovic.- 11. Conclusion.- 12. Index