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Genius of the Modern World

Genius of the Modern World
★ 7.7/10•2016•1h 0m•B-15•Documentary
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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.

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJun 16, 2016

Episodes

Episode 1 - MarxE160m

Marx

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.

Jun 16, 2016

Episode 2 - NietzscheE260m

Nietzsche

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

Jun 23, 2016

Episode 3 - FreudE360m

Freud

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

Jun 30, 2016

Actors

Bettany Hughes

Bettany Hughes

Self - Presenter

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