Season 1

3 EPISODES • 2016

Season 1 of Genius of the Modern World was released on June 16 and consists of 3 episodes.

Episodes

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.

2: Nietzsche

Jun 23, 2016

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

3: Freud

Jun 30, 2016

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

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