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Human Intelligence Exiles Episodes

    Ovid

    Ovid was Rome鈥檚 funniest, wittiest poet. How was his mind shaped by exile?

    Sor Juana In茅s De La Cruz

    How did exile enable a self-taught intellectual and proto-feminist to do her best work?

    Marie Curie

    Marie Curie had to go into exile to do her work, but she never forgot where she came from.

    Ishi

    The mind of Ishi: how one man worked to preserve the knowledge of an entire community.

    Karl Marx

    Exploring the mind of Karl Marx, a revolutionary political thinker and philosopher.