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.
The Church and the Second Sex
Daly's 1968 'Church and the Second Sex' — Catholic-feminist critique of patriarchy in the Roman Church (later renounced)
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Church and the Second Sex (Early) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| 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 | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| 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
The Church and the Second Sex
1968 first edition; 1975 substantially revised second edition; 1985 third with additional afterwords. Daly was 40 at first publication.
Space
The Church and the Second Sex
Boston College — the Jesuit institution where Daly was a junior faculty member when she wrote the book. Her near-firing in 1969 (and successful reinstatement after student protests) shaped her subsequent career and her movement to a post-Christian position.
Matter
The Church and the Second Sex
Single feminist-theological monograph (~240 pages first ed.; ~280 pages with subsequent introductions). Form is essayistic-systematic with extensive historical-theological documentation.
Observer
The Church and the Second Sex
Early Daly. The observer-philosopher is in the moment of transition between Catholic reformist position (1968) and post-Christian radical-feminist position (1975).
Energy
The Church and the Second Sex
Founding feminist-theological energies. The book is the most concentrated single document of the late-1960s transition from Catholic-reformist feminism to post-Christian radical-feminism.
Information
The Church and the Second Sex
Single book with later autocritical introduction. The doubled-edition structure (1968 + 1975 + 1985 expansions) is itself a thematic document of the transition the book records.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Daly's first book; Catholic-feminist starting point that she would later renounce. The 1968 edition founded Catholic feminist theology; the 1975 'Postchristian' edition founded post-Christian feminist theology. Both positions remain live in subsequent religious-feminist literature.