Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
On Revolution
The lost treasure of revolution — public freedom rediscovered, then forgotten. The American success and the French failure
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | On Revolution (Late (after Eichmann in Jerusalem)) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
On Revolution
Historical political time — the eighteenth-century revolutionary moments as the decisive temporal sites of modern political founding.
Space
On Revolution
The public space of political action — constituted in the revolutionary moment, preserved or lost in the post-revolutionary institutions.
Matter
On Revolution
Embodied political actors and the institutional apparatus they constructed; the material conditions (poverty, the social question) that shaped the political possibilities.
Observer
On Revolution
The revolutionary citizen as the central observer — plural, embodied, active in political founding. No metaphysical framework.
Energy
On Revolution
The political energies of revolutionary action — "the lost treasure" of public freedom as the central energetic content.
Information
On Revolution
Constitutional documents and political institutions as the preserved information of the revolutionary moment; tradition's failure to remember the revolutionary experience.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
On Revolution's celebration of the American founding has been criticised for underestimating slavery and Native dispossession (both fundamental to the American constitutional achievement). Its critique of the French Revolution's "social question" has been controversial in social-democratic and liberation-theological circles. The "lost treasure" of council democracy — Jefferson's ward-republics, the Paris communes, the 1956 Hungarian workers' councils — has been recovered by subsequent radical-democratic theorists (Sheldon Wolin, Miguel Abensour) as a continuing political possibility.