{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Emily McLaughlin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198849582.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849582.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This conclusion will explore how the late poem ‘L’Heure présente’ (2012) rearticulates the conception of ontological performance that Bonnefoy first develops in ‘La Terre’ (1975). It will analyse how Bonnefoy argues that poetry becomes an ontological performance when, having experienced the loss of any form of metaphysical absolute, and having been intimately exposed to the negativity of finite existence, we perceive value and sense in dynamic terms as the very praxis by which existence endlessly dissolves and opens itself up anew. Examining how Bonnefoy and Nancy both embrace this dynamic of opening and seek to make it felt within their writings, this conclusion will explore how the inherently ecstatic conception of textual performance that they develop resists the anthropocentrism of Heideggerian phenomenology and anticipates the turn towards the body and the material real that has occurred in recent French and Francophone poetry and philosophy.","PeriodicalId":410073,"journal":{"name":"Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129027180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}