Series

Genius of the Modern World

20161 season7.6Documentary

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

Episodes

1. Marx

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.

1h

2. Nietzsche

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

1h

3. Freud

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

1h

Cast

Bettany Hughes

Self - Presenter