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Genius of the Modern World

Season 1

2016 · 3 episodes

  1. 1. Marx

    2016-06-16 · 60m

    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.

  2. 2. Nietzsche

    2016-06-23 · 60m

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

  3. 3. Freud

    2016-06-30 · 60m

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

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