Genius of the Modern World

Overview

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

Episodes

Marx

S01E01 Marx

June 16, 2016 8.5 60 min
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...
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Nietzsche

S01E02 Nietzsche

June 23, 2016 9.0 60 min
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
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Freud

S01E03 Freud

June 30, 2016 60 min
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
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Cast

Bettany Hughes
Bettany Hughes
Self - Presenter

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