Philosophy: will we have known what it was?, W. wonders. Will we have understood what it might have become? No, they will never destroy philosophy, not entirely. Philosophy will survive so long as people suffer, W. says. But philosophy without an institution, philosophy without the university: what will it ever be but a cry of suffering, pure pathos? What will philosophy ever be but the roaring of the end?

There must be departments of thought, just as there must be departments of history, and departments of mathematics, W. says. The university must be a place kept apart from capitalism, and from the ravaging of the world by capitalism. The university must remain a utopian space, if thought is to survive; if hope is to survive.

Because without philosophy there is no hope, W. says. Without thought, you can only return to the pell-mell of suffering from which thought begins.