Genius of the Modern World
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world: Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
- 2016-2016
- 1 season
- Documentary
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
3 Episodes 2016
Episode 1
Marx
59 mins
Bettany Hughes investigates the revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx.
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.
Episode 3
Freud
60 mins
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
