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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