摘要：This paper is a presentation of the first results of a research in progress, whose main objective is to establish a reflection on the constitution of a philosophy of the tragic in Brazil. The philosophy of the tragic in modernity is born under the influence of German idealism and intensifies, with Nietzsche, as an alternative to conceptual rationality of modern science and the hierarchy of values proposed by the Judeo-Christian morals. Just as the young Nietzsche finds in ancient Greece the foundation for the development of his philosophy of the tragic - the Dionysian – it is possible that we can extract from the worldview of Yoruba culture, which survives even today in West African and Brazilian territories, within the liturgical process of worshiping the Orisa, elements that allow the formulation of our own tragic thought. Both Nietzsche and the Yoruba culture value the body as the primordial instance in the production of knowledge. Thus, we should observe how the production of concepts from the Yoruba worldview can contribute as an alternative to the knowledge that privilege at its base what Derrida pointed as "ethnocentrism" and "logocentrism."
