Culture and Value
Culture and Value is a selection from the personal notes of Ludwig Wittgenstein made by Georg Henrik von Wright.At the end of the book appears a poem that was offered by Wittgenstein to the Hofrat Ludwig Hänsel, and it is assumed that he was its author.Among the published notes particular attention has been bestowed on a passage where Wittgenstein enumerated people who, in his judgement, had influenced him: Boltzmann, Hertz, Schopenhauer, Frege, Russell, Kraus, Loos, Weininger, Spengler and Sraffa.[3] Of note to literary scholars, the book also contains some of Wittgenstein's thoughts on Shakespeare, negatively comparing his depictions of character to those of Tolstoy.[7] The musician Steve Reich, has a piece entitled Proverbs, which is set to a quote from the book: "How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life!".