Genius of the Modern World Season 1
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Episodes
E11. Marx
Jun 16, 2016 · 1h
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.
E22. Nietzsche
Jun 23, 2016 · 1h
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
E33. FreudSeason Finale
Jun 30, 2016 · 1h
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.