Genius of the Modern World: Season 1 - 3 Episode s
1x1 - Marx
June 16, 2016
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.
1x2 - Nietzsche
June 23, 2016
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
1x3 - Freud
June 30, 2016
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
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