The Space of Cosmopolitanism and the Cosmopolitan Subject

The human condition, according to Georg Simmel (1971), could be truly apprehended only by taking account of a certain ?dialectical circuitry? which underlay experience and gave human life a sense of passage and progress. The characteristic human experience concerned ?co-present dualisms?: public and private, rule and practice, antagonism and solidarity, freedom and constraint, rebelliousness and compliance, creativeness and structure. Here were paired phenomena one element of which presupposed the second element which yet, in turn, presupposed the first; one element influenced the second element which yet, in turn, influenced the first. Human experience oscillated and flowed between one and the