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.
Resurrection
Tolstoy's 1899 novel — Nekhlyudov's repentance for Maslova, the indictment of state-criminal-justice institutions
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Resurrection (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 | 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
Resurrection
The 1889-99 decade of composition; the contemporary 1890s Russian-Imperial setting.
Space
Resurrection
Petersburg, the trans-Siberian exile-route, the Russian penal system.
Matter
Resurrection
The embodied prisoners, the prince, the institutions whose violence the novel records.
Observer
Resurrection
Nekhlyudov as participant-observer-protagonist of his own conversion.
Energy
Resurrection
The institutional-violent and religious-transformative energies of the novel.
Information
Resurrection
The narrative-political-religious content of the novel.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Resurrection led to Tolstoy's 1901 excommunication by the Russian Orthodox Church; the novel has been variously assessed — defenders see major late-Tolstoy work, critics see thinly-fictionalised pamphleteering.