ABSTRACT
Looking at Culture and Value gives one the impression that Ludwig Wittgenstein hated everything in modern 'culture', and that culture came to an end for him with Schumann in 1856. In 1913 in Norway he told David Pinsent that he could only do his best in exile. In 1930, as a discovered diary shows, he says that in his room he feels not alone but in exile. Scholars can understand that Wittgenstein found it difficult to find a community where he could feel he belonged. There is no doubt that Spengler influenced Wittgenstein, but one can be influenced by someone with whom one disagrees. Wittgenstein says himself that his cultural predilections are instinctive, and are not the result of reflection. Wittgenstein thought that he lived in an age of civilization, but this is connected with wider considerations.
