Genius of the Modern World
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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.
Seasons & Episodes
EP1 MarxJun 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.
EP2 NietzscheJun 23, 2016
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
EP3 FreudJun 30, 2016
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
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| Language | English |
| Release | 2016-06-16 |
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