Issue: The current dynamics of globalization raise the question of how political communities and the humanity as the global polity as such will and shall be structured. Both extreme positions – idealistic or hegemonistic universalism and cosmopolitanism – as well as particularist pluralism fail to convince in view of the challenges, globalization is posing. New, non-exclusionary and democratic visions of political communities in the context of globalization need to be formulated, to answer the following questions: What are the structures of micro and macro polities in a globalized/glocalized order? What should be the normative guiding principles for the governance of these polities/political communities? Method: The questions raised in this paper are addressed by critically discussing the late writing of Peter Sloterdijk. In his spherology, Sloterdijk has presented a new theory about the emergence of communities, which he analyzes from spherological point of view. In “Du musst Dein Leben ändern”, he establishes a new ethical theory, which can be used as inspirational ground for a normative theory for the governance of the glocalized order. Result: This study provides a new understanding of the concept of community. Instead of the traditional dichotomy between community and society, communites – or, social spheres – are presented as complex and thick phenomena, which can be analyzed in nine dimensions (chirotop, phonotop, uterotop, thermotop, erotop, ergotop, alethotop, thanatotop, nomotop). Furthermore, the concept of social spheres is scalable – form the microsphere of a single person to the foamy macrospheres of the planet earth. Based on this spatial view, a normative theory of governance emerges, inspired by the principles of immunology.
