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Still Not Being Modern: Law and the Insistence of Myth
Australian Feminist Law Journal Pub Date : 2017-07-03 , DOI: 10.1080/13200968.2017.1412237
Peter Fitzpatrick

Abstract Nietzsche’s supremely sane, if overworked, madman provides the mythic orientation for this article. It is ‘we’ who have killed God, he reveals, and as a result we are left ‘straying as through an infinite nothing’, and left having to invent new ‘sacred games’. These, however, are a diversity and diversity does not, and cannot, take the place of the transcendent and all-encompassing singularity that was the occidental deity. With the supposedly secular Occident unable to embed its all-surpassing coherence in a positive transcendence, resort is had to a negative universal reference unfolded by way of a myth of origin. That myth configures a cohering identity of an occidental modernity formed as the antithesis yet comprehension of designated ‘others’. The article then turns to what this myth imports for our understanding of ‘modern’ law, matching such law to the generative dimensions of myth. What could be called the law implicate gives effect to mythic determinacy. Yet, law like myth has to be adaptively responsive, and in this it responds integrally to Nietzsche’s vision of that unlimited possibility made possible with the death of God.

中文翻译:

仍不现代:法律与神话的坚持

摘要尼采的至高无上的精神,如果过度劳累,疯子将为本文提供神话般的方向。他透露,是“我们”杀死了上帝,结果我们被“无所事事地迷途了”,而不得不发明新的“神圣游戏”。然而,这些是一种多样性,多样性不能也不能够代替西方神灵的超越和无所不包的奇点。由于所谓的世俗西方无法在积极超越中嵌入其所有超越的连贯性,因此不得不诉诸于起源于神话的负面普遍参考。那个神话构成了西方现代性的连贯身份,形成了西方现代性的对立统一,同时又理解了指定的“他人”。然后,文章转向了这个神话的含义,以供我们理解“现代”法律,使此类定律与神话的生成维度相匹配。所谓的法律暗示实现了神话般的确定性。但是,像神话这样的法律必须具有适应性,并且在这方面对尼采的观点做出了整体的回应,因为尼采的观点是无限的可能性随着上帝的死而得以实现。
更新日期:2017-07-03
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