Main content
Ludwig Wittgenstein
How Ludwig Wittgenstein's seminal work Philosophical Investigations revolutionised thinking on the nature of language in 1953.
In 1953, a posthumous work by the Austrian thinker, Ludwig Wittgenstein, revolutionised philosophy. Written in a unique, sometimes poetic style, Philosophical Investigations contained new thinking about the nature of language.
Simon Watts brings together ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ archive recordings of Wittgenstein's friends and colleagues, and hears from the philosopher's biographer, Ray Monk.
(Image: Ludwig Wittgenstein. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Last on
Thu 4 Jul 2013
07:50GMT
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Online
More episodes
Previous
Broadcast
- Thu 4 Jul 2013 07:50GMTÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Online
Featured in...
Archive 2013—Witness History
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
Podcast
-
Witness History
The story of our times, told by the people who were there