@article{Damonte_2020, title={Filosofia del linguaggio e musica in Wittgenstein: storia di un intreccio}, volume={14}, url={http://rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/article/view/617}, DOI={10.4396/202015}, abstractNote={<p>The relevance of music in Wittgenstein’s life and thought is well-known. Particularly, the writings on this theme concern the relationship between music and culture and the possibility of the aesthetic judgment. Following a suggestion by Cavell, I am shifting the attention on the value of Wittgenstein’s reflections on music for his philosophy of language. In the first paragraph, I underline the presence of music in Wittgenstein’s training and the impression of Schopenhauer’s thought on him. Then I take into consideration the propositions 3.141, 4.014 and 4.0141 of the <em>Tractatus</em>, in order to show how music is used to explain the “picture theory” of the language. Also in the “meaning as use theory” of understanding presented in <em>Philosophical Investigations</em>, the parallelism between music and language is preserved, and this implies to consider Wittgenstein’s critique towards modern musicians a sort of impossibility of understanding. I conclude that in Wittgenstein’s conception, language and music are linked by performativity, but that they are independent from each other, otherwise it would not be possible to appreciate music as a phenomenon able to affect different theories about language.</p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio}, author={Damonte, Marco}, year={2020}, month={Dec.} }