Genius of the Modern World

7.6

2016•1h

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

Seasons

3 Episodes • Premiered 2016

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1. Marx

8.5

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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2. Nietzsche

9.0

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

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3. Freud

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

Cast

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Bettany Hughes

Self - Presenter

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