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.
Disturbing the Peace
A long interview through which Havel surveys his life, his philosophy, and his political commitments in the years just before the 1989 Velvet Revolution
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Disturbing the Peace (Late-dissident (composed three years before the Velvet Revolution)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| 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
Disturbing the Peace
The mid-1980s moment three years before 1989; the autobiographical arc of Havel's life from 1936 through 1985.
Space
Disturbing the Peace
Czechoslovakia (Prague especially) as Havel's political-philosophical space; West Germany as Hvížďala's exile-interlocutor space.
Matter
Disturbing the Peace
The embodied Havel — his bodily life in prison, in the theatre, in dissident community.
Observer
Disturbing the Peace
Havel as self-reflecting observer; Hvížďala as the interviewer whose questions structure the reflection.
Energy
Disturbing the Peace
The intellectual, theatrical, and political energies of Havel's career; the institutional energies of late-Communist Czechoslovakia.
Information
Disturbing the Peace
The discrete content of the nine chapters; the cumulative autobiographical-philosophical portrait.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The book was composed three years before the 1989 Velvet Revolution that would unexpectedly bring Havel to the presidency; reading it after 1989 changes its meaning — what had seemed an account of permanent dissidence turned out to be the prologue to political leadership. Havel's subsequent presidency (1989-2003) substantially tested the philosophical-political positions Disturbing the Peace had developed.