Imre Lakatos and the guises of reason

An influential communist intellectual imprisoned for years by the Stalinist regime, Lakatos escaped Hungary following the failed 1956 Revolution. Kadvany argues that this intellectual and political past animated Lakato´s English-language philosophy, which integrated a penetrating vision of Hegelian ideas with rigorous analysis of mathematical proofs and controversial histories of science. Including new applications of Lakato´s ideas to the histories of mathematical logic and economics and providing lucid exegesis of many of Hegel´s basic ideas, this book is an exciting reconstruction of ideas and episodes from the history of philosophy, science, mathematics, and modern political history.