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Genius of the Modern World Season 1 Episodes

  • 2016-2016
  • 1 Season
  • Documentary
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Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world: Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

3 Episodes 2016 - 2016

Episode 1

Marx

59 mins

Bettany Hughes investigates the revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx.

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Episode 2

Nietzsche

60 mins

Bettany Hughes goes in search of the beliefs of a man whose work is amongst the most devastatingly manipulated and misinterpreted in philosophical history.

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Episode 3

Freud

60 mins

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

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