Genius of the Modern World

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  1. Marx

  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.

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  2. Nietzsche

  60m

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

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  3. Freud

  60m

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

Cast

Bettany Hughes

Self - Presenter