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.
Where Do We Go from Here
MLK's 1967 late work — political-philosophical analysis of late Civil Rights Movement
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Where Do We Go from Here (Late) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-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 | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| 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 | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Where Do We Go from Here
1967, post-Civil-Rights-Act and Voting-Rights-Act, mid-Vietnam-War, post-Watts and pre-King-assassination political-cultural moment.
Space
Where Do We Go from Here
American and increasingly international context; King engaging Black Power movement nationally and the Vietnam War globally.
Matter
Where Do We Go from Here
Civil Rights Movement evolution, Black-Power critique, Vietnam War, poverty and economic inequality, the structure of American political community.
Observer
Where Do We Go from Here
Late King as political-philosophical-religious leader, evolved from earlier reformist-integrationist toward democratic-socialist-internationalist analysis.
Energy
Where Do We Go from Here
Prophetic-political, structural-critical, democratic-socialist, increasingly internationalist energies.
Information
Where Do We Go from Here
Systematic ten-chapter political-philosophical analysis; mixes movement-history narrative, structural-economic critique, and Christian-prophetic moral argument.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Where Do We Go has been variously assessed. King's democratic-socialist, anti-Vietnam, and economic-justice positions made the book controversial in mainstream-establishment circles in 1967 and were largely effaced in subsequent King-memorialisation. The post-1990s historiographical recovery of 'the radical King' (Cornel West, Vincent Harding, Michael Eric Dyson, Peniel Joseph) restored Where Do We Go to centrality. The book is now standard in African-American-studies and political-theology curricula.