Genius of the Modern World

2016
1 Seasons
3 Episodes
7.6 (11)
Ended

Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

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3. Freud

June 30, 2016

Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.

2. Nietzsche

June 23, 2016

Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.

1. Marx

June 16, 2016

Bettany begins her journey in the city of Trier on the banks of the Mosel in Germany. It was here on the 5 May 1818 that Karl Marx, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century was born.

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Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.