Genius of the Modern World Episodes
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Historian
Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas
shaped the modern world: Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund
Freud.Born in the 19th century, they lived through a time
when old certainties were breaking down. Regimes were overthrown by
mass uprisings, science was undermining religious authority. Their
challenge was to figure out what makes us human in a fast-evolving
world.
Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas
shaped the modern world: Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund
Freud.Born in the 19th century, they lived through a time
when old certainties were breaking down. Regimes were overthrown by
mass uprisings, science was undermining religious authority. Their
challenge was to figure out what makes us human in a fast-evolving
world.
