{"title":"Right and might: of approximate truths and moral judgements","authors":"S. Reyna","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962597","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article explains why the community of scholars in the current conjuncture of the capitalist development of power experiences problems distinguishing between right and might and suggests a way of reducing such difficulties. It claims that the mightys’ operation of regimes of truth in conjunction with intellectuals’ adoption of postmodern sentiments erodes the ability to judge whether those with might have it right. This position is argued by considering a particular assertion of righteousness. The Indonesian and US mighty, as represented by Geertz, claimed that the Indonesian military's 1965–66 massacres were in self‐defense. “Causal moral analysis” is formulated as a method of assessing this claim.","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":"22 1","pages":"431-465"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962597","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article explains why the community of scholars in the current conjuncture of the capitalist development of power experiences problems distinguishing between right and might and suggests a way of reducing such difficulties. It claims that the mightys’ operation of regimes of truth in conjunction with intellectuals’ adoption of postmodern sentiments erodes the ability to judge whether those with might have it right. This position is argued by considering a particular assertion of righteousness. The Indonesian and US mighty, as represented by Geertz, claimed that the Indonesian military's 1965–66 massacres were in self‐defense. “Causal moral analysis” is formulated as a method of assessing this claim.
期刊介绍：
Identities explores the relationship of racial, ethnic and national identities and power hierarchies within national and global arenas. It examines the collective representations of social, political, economic and cultural boundaries as aspects of processes of domination, struggle and resistance, and it probes the unidentified and unarticulated class structures and gender relations that remain integral to both maintaining and challenging subordination. Identities responds to the paradox of our time: the growth of a global economy and transnational movements of populations produce or perpetuate distinctive cultural practices and differentiated identities.
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