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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.

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Documentary
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First Aired on

Jun 16, 2016

1 seaons till Jun 30, 2016

Popularity: 3.4675
11 votes
Networks
(GB)
Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: Freud

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 3 episodes

Season 1

Aired

3 Episodes
  • Episode 1Marx60 min

    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.

  • Episode 2Nietzsche60 min

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

  • Episode 3Freud60 min

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

Crew & Team

David Upshal

Executive Producer

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