Genius of the Modern World Episode Rating Graph
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Best Episodes of Genius of the Modern World
Marx
S1 Ep1
16th Jun 2016
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.
Worst Episodes of Genius of the Modern World
Freud
S1 Ep3
30th Jun 2016
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
Genius of the Modern World Episode Guide
Marx
S1 Ep1
16th Jun 2016
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.
Nietzsche
S1 Ep2
23rd Jun 2016
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
Freud
S1 Ep3
30th Jun 2016
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
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