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Ludwig and Franz - by Aaron - Last Year's Snow

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I recently read Wittgenstein's Culture and Value, which is the somewhat arbitrary title given to the English translation of Vermischte Bemerkungen ("Miscellaneous Remarks"), selections from his notebooks. I've been fascinated by Wittgenstein ever since I saw this BBC documentary on him during the pandemic. It's a wonderful film, in which the philosopher appears as a kind of World's Most Interesting Man: a genius, from a family of geniuses that was also one of the richest in Austria, who would have to be called an eccentric if he weren't so deadly serious and highly accomplished. He completed his great philosophical work, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, while a soldier in World War I, after which he gave away his fortune and became a schoolteacher in a remote Austrian village for almost 10 years. (His record as a teacher was a little uneven.) Later he decided to help his sister build a house, took over the job from the architect and designed it himself, down to the doorknobs and window

Photo by Moriz Nähr I recently read Wittgenstein's Culture and Value, which is the somewhat arbitrary title given to the English translation of Vermischte Bemerkungen ("Miscellaneous Remarks"), selections from his notebooks. I've been fascinated by Wittgenstein ever since I saw this BBC documentary on him during the pandemic. It's a wonderful film, in which the philosopher appears as a kind of World's Most Interesting Man: a genius, from a family of geniuses that was also one of the richest in Austria, who would have to be called an eccentric if he weren't so deadly serious and highly…

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