When Jacques Derrida delivered his highly regarded lecture "The Future of the University" at the invitation of Jürgen Habermas in Frankfurt, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung placed it alongside the famous speeches of Kant, Schelling, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Derrida outlines an unconditional, unqualified university that simultaneously reflects and encompasses a possible orientation for the humanities as a whole. His attempt to outline a modern form of the university can provide crucial philosophical impulses for the current debate on university reform. His text combines a subtle and precise philosophical argumentation with a pointed political position.