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.
Key Crew
Top Cast
Bettany Hughes
Self - Presenter
Seasons
Season 1 (2016)
No overview available.
3 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Marx
2016-06-16Bettany 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.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: Nietzsche
2016-06-23Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 3: Freud
2016-06-30Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
Runtime: 60 min
