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Genius of the Modern World

Genius of the Modern World

S1 · E1

IMDB:

7.6
Genius of the Modern World

Released

6/16/2016

Duration

1h 0m

Genre

Documentary

Country

United States

Cast

Bettany Hughes

Overview

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

Episodes

MarxEP 1Available

Marx

60m8.5

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.

NietzscheEP 2Available

Nietzsche

60m9.0

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

FreudEP 3Available

Freud

60m0.0

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

Cast

Bettany Hughes

Self - Presenter

Bettany Hughes

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