Genius of the Modern WorldJune 23, 2016

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most brilliant and dangerous minds of the 19th century. His uncompromising and often brutal ideas smashed the comfortable presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science. His was a world not just bereft of God but almost of humanity, breathtaking in both its post-religious starkness and its originality.

Genius of the Modern World was broadcast on BBC4 at Thursday 23 June 2016, 21:02.