Genius of the Modern World

2016 - 2016

Marx

16th June 2016

Episode 1

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.

Nietzsche

23rd June 2016

Episode 2

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

Freud

30th June 2016

Episode 3

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

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Bettany Hughes

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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.

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