The document proposes an interpretation of Nietzsche’s critique to modern philosophy and to the humanism that resides on its foundations. This critique first exposes the characteristics of modern subjectivity from the nietzschean ontology of drives and its specific relation with time and history. From that point on and in second place, it proposes a philosophy, distant from humanism, which permits to reconsider issues such as the way we relate with ‘others’ and ‘ourselves’ from that which we had considered most ‘improper’ or ‘strange’ to the human being. From the particular place that it is given to the ‘foreign’, ‘improper’ or ‘negative’, it is intended to trace the differences between Nietzsche’s thought and the philosophy of his time and its antecessors. This estrangement is explored in depth with the purpose of showing how Nietzsche’s thought keeps certain validity precisely because of its cutting critiques to notions and concepts that are present still in the way we think ourselves as human beings and in what we consider the most proper to ‘ourselves’. This validity makes itself even stronger not only because of its pertinence, actuality –untimely- and sharp critique, but also because it offers alternatives and new ways of comprehending existence, history, time, as well as our corporality and our relations with ‘others’ from a renewed meaning of that which we ought to call ‘the proper’.