Genius of the Modern World
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Season 1
1. Marx
8.5Jun 16, 2016 · 60 minBettany 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.
2. Nietzsche
9.0Jun 23, 2016 · 60 minNietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
3. Freud
0.0Jun 30, 2016 · 60 minBettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.