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.
An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
The principles of 1789 are sound — the Terror is their corruption, not their fulfilment
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution (Late (Wollstonecraft's last completed major non-fiction work, three years before her death)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| 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 | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
The historical time of the Revolution itself — the calendar of events from 1789 through 1793 as the framework of analysis.
Space
An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
Paris as the spatial centre, but with constant attention to provincial France, the army frontiers, and the international response.
Matter
An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
The embodied revolutionary crowd, the legislators, the king's execution — the materiality of revolutionary politics.
Observer
An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
Wollstonecraft as the British radical-republican observer attempting historical objectivity from inside the events.
Energy
An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
The energies of revolutionary politics — both the moral energy of 1789 and the violent energy of 1792-93.
Information
An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
The historical sources Wollstonecraft uses — speeches, decrees, witness reports — as the evidential basis of moral judgement.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Wollstonecraft died in 1797 before continuing the work; only volume I was completed. Her position — defending 1789 against both Burke and the Jacobins — became increasingly difficult to sustain politically as the Terror peaked. The work was understudied for two centuries (her Vindications dominated reception) but has been rediscovered as central to feminist political historiography (Sapiro, Taylor, Tomaselli).