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.
Six Crises
Nixon's six major political crises — Alger Hiss, the Fund Crisis, Eisenhower's heart attack, the Caracas mob, the Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate," the 1960 election
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Six Crises (Mid (pre-presidential, post-1960 defeat)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| 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
Six Crises
The historical-political time of Cold War America from 1948 through 1960.
Space
Six Crises
The American political space; the broader Cold War global political space.
Matter
Six Crises
Nixon's embodied political career; the material conditions of political crisis.
Observer
Six Crises
Nixon as the singular autobiographical-political narrator. American civic-religious framework as background.
Energy
Six Crises
The political-strategic energies of crisis management.
Information
Six Crises
The political-personal history preserved through autobiographical reflection.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Six Crises was written before Nixon's 1968 election to the presidency and subsequent 1974 Watergate resignation. The book's reception is inevitably complicated by subsequent events. Nixon's subsequent memoir RN (1978) treats the same material from the post-Watergate vantage. Modern Nixon scholarship has substantially complicated both the historical narrative and the political-personal assessment.