Documents Wittgenstein's life in the city: the places where he, his family and those with whom he was in contact lived, worked, entertained and were socialized. This book is a source of enrichment to the cultural tourist in Vienna.

His father's house; poet and thinker; mighty mythology; appartment house with a family connection; patrons of science; secession and tradition; dream and reality; prophet between two stools; Caf as Weltanschauung; speller dictated; philosopher under the hammer; protestant ethics; the end of a friendship; "in order to become a teacher"; the last journey; stomping hoofbeats; critical influence; how the other half dies; the birthplace; Engelmann and Wittgenstein, architects; Musil's neighbour; ontological difference; random remarks; Grnderzeit grandfather; between Hoffman and Hoffmannsthal; "nag freight"; Weininger's well-to-do publisher; the way to Pavilion Ludwig; "C/O Mrs Sjgren"; cause and effect; Ernst Mach Society.