ABSTRACT
How should we analyze this problematic? And
what can we learn from Heidegger’s gesture to
understand the improper today? Of the many
commentators, Esposito and Nancy offer us
perhaps the most detailed analysis of Heideg-
ger’s schizophrenic stance towards the impro-
per. Both Nancy and Esposito are crucial for
understanding why existence is always proper
and improper. I will follow their line of thinking
in order to find an answer to the question of the
improper today. Esposito states that in order for
there to be something common, there must be
something different from the proper. In order
to live, a community is condemned to include
what it wants to exclude. Consequently, we are
subjects of nothing but our own expropriation
(Esposito, Immunitas).
