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04/07/2013 GMT

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How the publication of Philosophical Investigations in 1953 revolutionised philosophy

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 BBC 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)

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