Genius of the Modern World

Name: Genius of the Modern World
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-06-16
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Bettany Hughes

7.6 Jun 2016 1 Season 3 Episodes

Ended

Documentary

Overview

Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · English

Cast

Bettany Hughes

Self - Presenter

Key Crew

David Upshal

Executive Producer

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 60m ★ 8.5

Nietzsche

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

Jun 23, 2016 60m ★ 9.0

Freud

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

Jun 30, 2016 60m

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