Genius of the Modern World

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

Genre: Documentary,

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Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: N/A

Duration: 60 minutes

Release: 2016-06-16

Rating: 7.4

Season 1 - Genius of the Modern World
2016-06-16
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.
2016-06-23
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
2016-06-30
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.