When Jacques Derrida gave his much-noticed lecture The Future of the University at the invitation of Jürgen Habermas in Frankfurt, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung placed him in a series with the famous speeches Kants, Schellings, Nietzsches and Heideggers. Derrida designs an unconditional unconditional university that at the same time reflects and includes a possible orientation for the humanities as a whole. His attempt to outline a modern form of university can give decisive philosophical impulses to the current debate on the reform of the university. His text combines a subtle and precise philosophical argumentation with a pointed political position.