It is a special pleasure to be publishing this issue, which is entirely devoted to papers of my colleagues at the Graduate Faculty.  In assembling the papers I invited colleagues to reflect on developments and consider prospects in their own disciplines which they find promising or otherwise significant.  So what these papers represent are the personal views and tastes of colleagues.  However, the issue is not meant as a profile of the Graduate Faculty and it is not.  Rather it is a group of papers focusing on problems with which respected and active scholars in the social sciences are now engaged.  There is no common theme, only a shared concern for the future of social inquiry.

  Frontiers in Social Inquiry

    Editor's Introduction                                                                                                                             687

    History's Lessons                                                    Robert Heilbroner                                                689

    Futures of European States                                      Charles Tilly                                                        705

    The State to the Rescue? Political
    Science and History Reconnect                                Ira Katznelson                                                     719

    The Politics of the Impossible:
    Or, Whatever Happened to
    Evolutionary Theory?                                                Eli Sagan                                                            739

    Weak Sociology/Strong
    Sociologists: Consequences and
    Contradictions of a Field in
    Turmoil                                                                    Alan Wolfe                                                         759

    Otiose Economics                                                    Alice H. Amsden                                                781

    Toward a Structural Theory of
    Psychopathology                                                      David Shapiro                                                   799

    The Resurgence of Pragmatism                                 Richard J. Bernstein                                          813

    Multiculturalism and the
    Challenge of Anthropology                                        William Roseberry                                             841

    Table of Contents and Index of
    Contributors to Volume 59                                                                                                                  859
 
 

Alice H. Amsden is Leo Model Professor of Economics in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.  She is the author of Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization (1989).

Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.  His most recent book is The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity (1992).

Robert Heilbroner is Norman Thomas Professor of Economics Emeritus in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.  His Twenty-First-Century Capitalism will be published next year.

Ira Katznelson is Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science in the Graduate Faculty of the New School of Social Research.  His most recent book is Marxism and the City (1992).

William Roseberry is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.  His books include Anthropologies and Histories (1989).

Eli Sagan is guest lecturer in the Department of Sociology in the New School Graduate Faculty.  He is the author of The Honey and the Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America (1991).

David Shapiro is professor of psychology in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.  His most recent book is Psychotherapy of Neurotic Character (1989).

Charles Tilly is University Distinguished Professor at the New School for Social Research.  His European Revolutions will be published next year.

Alan Wolfe is Dean and Michael E. Gellert Professor of Social and Political Science in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.  His books include Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation (1989).