Alexandre Kojève says about Hegel's philosophy that it ultimately leads to an "end of history," at which point the "figure of the sage" appears. Martin Heidegger remarks on Nietzsche's thinking, stating that it reaches the "end of metaphysics" and relocates the answer to the question of being into a realm that can be called the "poetics of being." Both groundbreaking interpretations lead to a metaphorical standstill – each speaks of an "end" – that transcends the logic of argumentation: the figure of the sage and the poetics of being emerge from the immanence of philosophy as new possibilities of thought. The sage is the walking paradox of philosophy, while poetic language is the envied competitor. The situation of closure compels an exploration of the boundaries. What does philosophy say about its (our) situation?.