ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the composer and musicologist Arnold Schonberg and the German physicists Heinrich Hertz and Ludwig Boltzmann. It discusses the Ludwig Josef Johann wittgenstein's family background and education, cambridge and bertrand russell, military service, tractatus logico-Philosophicus, departure from and return to philosophy, 'Sraffa's gesture', Karl Kraus, Viennese Expressionism and parallels with Wittgenstein. Thinking the dangers of battle would test his character, Wittgenstein volunteered for service in the Austro-Hungarian Army. With respect to the relation between language and reality, Wittgenstein did so in philosophy with his own form of 'Sprachkritik,' grounding the logical form of language in reality. During Wittgenstein's stay in rural Austria, the Tractatus became the subject of a great deal of discussion among philosophers and intellectuals in and around Vienna and at Cambridge. The chapter also discusses Schonberg's musicology, and the influence of German philosophy of physics, picture theory of meaning, simple objects and phase space.
