Abstract This article seeks to receive Peter Fitzpatrick’s foundational work on postcolonial jurisprudence, The Mythology of Modern Law, today – a historical moment of profound crisis. It argues that in order to carry forward the task that this groundbreaking book sets for itself, and thus to enact one mode of receiving it, we need to stage tragedies of modern international law. In doing so, it develops upon a body of scholarship reflecting on the particular relationship between the form of tragedy and the form of myth, whereby the form of tragedy emerges as a method for receiving, and reworking, broken-down mythology from the past by way of staging it as a problem for the present. It concludes by showing how tragedies of modern international law illuminatingly stage encounters with a plurality of different international law(s), and reveal how it is (modern colonial) blindness to encounters with the laws of others that produces its catastrophes.

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悲剧定律：接受当今现代法律的神话

摘要本文旨在探寻彼得·菲茨帕特里克（Peter Fitzpatrick）在后殖民法学上的基础性著作《现代法的神话》，这是一个深刻危机的历史时刻。它认为，为了继续执行这本开创性书所规定的任务，从而制定一种接受该书的方式，我们需要上演现代国际法的悲剧。在这种情况下，它发展成一种学术体系，反映出悲剧形式与神话形式之间的特殊关系，从而悲剧形式作为一种方法来出现，以接受和改造过去的破碎神话。将其作为当前问题的方式。最后，通过展示现代国际法的悲剧如何在舞台上与众多不同的国际法相遇而得出结论，