The nomadic thinker is one who traces the contours of the free space of thinking and whose subjectivity is, for necessary structural reasons, in a state of war-like struggle. This struggle is not a purely intellectual exercise where one engages in critique with nothing more at stake than, say, a purely formal vision of the greater good. Instead, one could say, in a manner faintly reminiscent of Carl Schmitt, that what is at stake is the nomadic thinker's very life, that is to say, the ethos, integrity and creativity of the free space of thinking.