Wittgenstein and Modernity 

In the early twentieth century, Vienna’s artistic and cultural landscape experienced an unprecedented shift toward modernity: Adolf Loos and the Secession movement, Arnold Schönberg, Jung Wien and Karl Kraus, Sigmund Freud, Ernst Mach and the Vienna Circle-just to mention the most important names. Proceeding from Janik’s and Toulmin’s thesis in Wittgenstein’s Vienna, the question will be explored regarding to what extent Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical work is deeply rooted in this very specific culture of Viennese modernity.

Wittgenstein's interest in the work of Oswald Spengler is certainly worth researching.

Which book Ray Monk refers to at 30:30?

Ludwig laughs and shakes his head.

Ray Monk has the ability to say the truth about wittgenstein in simple, clear words - because he has no interest to utter own meanings.

That's the problem with all areas of knowledge, it in danger of dogatism and generalisations.

Wittgenstein was repelled by modernity and modernism. The idea that he would have approved of conceptual art is quite absurd.

Enfim Não é minha culpa

The longest intro I have ever heard, shut up and on with the panel.

LW was a neurotic fool and puppet of Lord Russell. These jerks have no idea what they're talking about. LW has become a cult fad object for people who have no notion what he was saying. In fact, his ideas about language, for ex, are all absurd. He is so overrated it's ridiculous. He was certainly a brilliant and captivating writer of the aphoristic sort, deserving the praise wrongly given to Nietzsche on that score, and he has an attractive personality -- refreshingly non-pompous, direct, humorous. But he was basically an engineer. And he had an engineer's way of looking at things. And although that's fine for engineering, it doesn't work for most of the things he was trying to understand, human language being the worst example of all.