Genius of the Modern World
Season 12016
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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Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
3 Episodes
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.
June 16, 2016
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
June 23, 2016
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
June 30, 2016
