Modernity, with his idea of progress, conceives time as a line directed to a final point, which for Maffesoli is a translation into secular terms of the christian philosophy of history. Postmodernity, for this author, it’s on the contrary linked to tragedy and scepticism, because assumes present and rejects every moral proposition. Tragedy, however, existed before modernity; if modern thought repressed her, it will be necessary to say that we’re witnesses of her return, that happens under the figures of ephemeral and spectacular, which find in everyday life his natural domain.