Genius of the Modern World (Documentary, English)
Genres: History
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2016-06-16
Ended: 2016-06-30
Network: BBC Four
Country: GB
Airs on: Thursday
Air time: 21:00
Runtime: 60 minutes
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.