Abstract

The present study aims to demonstrate how the analyses by Nietzsche, Simmel and Benjamin of the tragic phenomenon may teach us how to cultivate the tragic fabric and to live with the systemic soil that nourishes it, in order to create abilities to cross over the cores or tragic occurrences and to transform afterwards the respective memories into forms of narrativity, articulated in a sequence thread. The perspective deformations of modernity, imposed by the contingency of the present societies, may be in this way critically compensated by the understanding of the tragic fundament that is inherent to human existence.