Genius Of The Modern World
- 2016, BBC Four
- Oct 25, 2016
- 1 min read
Updated: Jan 23, 2023
BBC Four series in which 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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"The television historian Bettany Hughes, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, energetic, enthusiastic and rather astonished, has tramped across the continents on our behalf, making a clutch of hour-long documentary introductions to the individuals with the most profound influence on human society"
THE ARTS DESK
"In a terrific start to Genius of the Modern World, her new series on great modern(ish) thinkers, Bettany Hughes was not so much interested in what Karl Marx led to as to what led to Karl Marx"
THE TIMES
"Bettany Hughes, in her Genius of the Modern World series, did an excellent job of not only explaining his views but charting their origins and consequences"
Andrew Billen, THE TIMES
"Redoubtably clever stuff"
THE GUARDIAN
In Genius of the Modern World, Bettany Hughes does a fantastic job of bringing the revolutionary theories of Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Karl Marx to life. It's great background information for anybody interested in these philosophers, and an excellent place to start before buy dissertation discussion resources on their significant influence on contemporary thought.
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