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Work #1127 · Late

Tomorrow Is Now

Eleanor Roosevelt
1962 (written, unfinished at her death), 1963 (published posthumously) · English
Political-philosophical testament · American liberal-progressive political tradition

Roosevelt's posthumous 1963 testament — the unfinished work of American liberal democracy

Attribute Fingerprint

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Attribute Tomorrow Is Now (Late)
Time · Extent Finite
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 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 Community
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

Tomorrow Is Now

The 1962 last-year moment of Roosevelt's life; the early-1960s American political setting.

Space

Tomorrow Is Now

The American polity and the broader international-democratic setting.

Matter

Tomorrow Is Now

The embodied political community whose unfinished work the testament addresses.

Observer

Tomorrow Is Now

Roosevelt the elder-statesperson as proper testamentary observer.

Energy

Tomorrow Is Now

The political energies of mid-twentieth-century American liberal-democratic life.

Information

Tomorrow Is Now

The political-testamentary content of the unfinished book.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Tomorrow Is Now

Roosevelt's posthumous testament has been variously assessed — defenders see foundational late-twentieth-century liberal-political statement, critics on left and right have contested specific positions.