Nancy on Heidegger

Jean-Luc Nancy has a great comment often repeated by those who study Heidegger but never quite so elegantly, and yet simply rendered, that I thought I'd just reproduce here:

In general, what people have gotten into the bad habit of translating "authentic" but which is, in fact, the "proper" (eigen, Eigentlichkeit), takes place nowhere other than right at the "improper," right at everyday existence--and, what's more, in the very mode of the improper's "turning away" from the proper.

-from "Originary Ethics" in A Finite Thinking

Thinking this "right at," as Derrida often remarks in his On Touching--Jean-Luc Nancy, is the key.