Genius of the Modern World
Genius of the Modern World
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Genius of the Modern World

7.6 / 10
2016
1 season
3 episodes
Documentary

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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  • Marx

    1.Marx

    8.5
    16-06-201660m

    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 20...

  • Nietzsche

    2.Nietzsche

    9.0
    23-06-201660m

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

  • Freud

    3.Freud

    30-06-201660m

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

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