Genius of the Modern World
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
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1.Marx
8.516-06-201660mBettany 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 20...
2.Nietzsche
9.023-06-201660mNietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
3.Freud
30-06-201660mBettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
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