Genius of the Modern World - Season 1

Genius of the Modern World

Season 1

2016 • 3 Episodes

Episodes

Marx - Genius of the Modern World

1. Marx

8.5

June 16, 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 - Genius of the Modern World

2. Nietzsche

9.0

June 23, 2016

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

Freud - Genius of the Modern World

3. Freud

June 30, 2016

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