Genius of the Modern World (2016)
Synopsis
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
First Air Date: 2016-06-16
Last Air Date: 2016-06-30
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 3
Networks: BBC Four
Top Cast
- Bettany Hughes as Self - Presenter
Seasons
Season 1 (2016)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: 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.
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Ep. 2: Nietzsche
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
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Ep. 3: Freud
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
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