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Genius of the Modern World

Season 1 · 3 episodes · Jun 16, 2016

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    Episode 1

    Marx

    Jun 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.

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    Episode 2

    Nietzsche

    Jun 23, 2016

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

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    Episode 3

    Freud

    Jun 30, 2016

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