Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Conceptions of identity -- Collective identity -- Introduction -- Singular and collective identity -- Linguistic and racial identity -- Using history and nation to be -- From regional to global identity -- Contextual identities -- Oppressive liberties -- Emancipatory identities -- Composite identities -- Whence does a writer derive her sense of identity? -- Caribbean philosophy: in guise of a conclusion -- Liberalism beyond borders -- Thoughts of informal democracy, moral prescription, globalization and sovereignty -- Philosophy and contemporary realities -- David held's cosmopolitan democracy -- Sovereignty, democracy, and globalization -- Transnational ethics, multiple appurtenance and anarchy -- Informal democracy -- Searching freedoms : political representation in informal democracies -- Public accountability -- Inclusion and accountability -- Toward a collective responsibility -- Ethics and collectivity -- Morality, unpredictability, and collective responsibility -- Morality in an unpredictable world -- Moral philosophy in the present -- On being moral -- Conceptions of collective responsibility -- Examples of collective responsibility in practice -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Africana modernity, global justice and collective responsibility -- Introduction -- Africana cosmopolitanism -- Allegiance, global ideologies, contemporary directions -- Radicalism à la mode or outmoded -- Global justice -- Collective responsibility -- Conclusion -- Index -- Bibliography.