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.
Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression
Weil's 1934 critique of Marxist orthodoxy — oppression as structural, not solely the consequence of capitalism
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression (Early) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| 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 | Variable |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression
The 1934 inter-war moment of Stalinist-orthodox Marxism and rising fascism.
Space
Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression
The factory, the bureaucratic office, the modern large-scale organisations Weil critiques.
Matter
Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression
The embodied worker whose concrete conditions Weil takes as her starting point.
Observer
Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression
The radical-philosophical critic of large-scale organisation.
Energy
Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression
The political energies of inter-war French radicalism.
Information
Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression
The political-economic analysis of organisational-bureaucratic oppression.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Weil's anti-bureaucratic critique has been variously assessed — defenders see prescient warning, orthodox Marxists historically contested her revisionism.