Crime and Impunity

This Replika Monogram examines the political career of Imre Lakatos during his years in Hungary.  At the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 he fled to England, where he became one of the world’s foremost philosophers of mathematics and science.  A protegé of Karl Popper, he maintained an interest in politics and gained a reputation as an outspoken defender of the “Open Society” and a fierce opponent of student radicalism, particularly during the so-called “Troubles” at the London School of Economics.  Few in his adopted home knew, however, of his previous incarnation as a demonic communist.