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   Social Research has appeared four times a year for the past sixty years which probably ranks it among the longest lived scholarly journals in the United States.  We are proud of its durability which we celebrate with this issue.  The journal was begun in 1934 by the small groups of "rescued" emigre professors who first constituted the Graduate Faculty in Exile, which later became the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School for Social Research.
   It seems fitting to mark this occasion by looking back at the work of some of those, now deceased, who were members of this faculty, all but one of whom published in these pages and whose works continue to seriously influence our thinking.  The issue begins with previously unpublished papers by Hannah Arendt, Leon Festinger, and Hans Jonas.  I am particularly grateful to Jerome Kohn and the Hannah Arendt Literary Trust for making it possible for us to publish the article by  Hannah Arendt, to Trudy Festinger, Eugene Burnstein, and the Institute for Social Research for permission to publish the article by Leon Festinger, and to Lore Jonas for permission to publish the Hans Jonas article.  In addition, I would like to thank Jerome Kohn for his elegant editing of the Arendt paper.  The papers that follow the Arendt, Festinger, and Jonas articles on Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, Hans Morgenthau, Leo Strauss, Max Wertheimer, Aron Gurwitsch, and Benjamin Nelson are reflections on their principle intellectual contributions and their impact on the present which, given the pace of change and obsolescence in life, itself serves as a testimony to the importance of their work.
   As editor, if I had but one wish for the future of this journal it would be that it be around sixty years from now and play a role in the intellectual dialogue of its time.

    The Legacy of Our Past

    Introduction                                                                                                                                 737

    Some Questions of Moral
    Philosophy                                                       Hannah Arendt                                                   739

    Arendt and Individualism                                   George Kateb                                                    765

    Reflections on How to Study and
    Understand the Human Being                           Leon Festinger                                                    795

    Philosophy at the End of the
    Century: A Survey of Its Past
    and Future                                                       Hans Jonas                                                            813

    Rethinking Responsibility                                   Richard Bernstein                                                833

    Hans Morgenthau, Realism, and
    the Scientific Study of
    International Politics                                       Robert Jervis                                                        853

    Leo Strauss Peregrinus                                   Fred Dallmayr                                                    877

    The Legacy of Max Wertheimer
    and Gestalt Psychology                                   D. Brett King,
                                                                            Michael Wertheimer,
                                                                            Heidi Keller, and
                                                                            Kevin Crochetiere                                            907
    The Unity of Aron Gurwitsch's
    Philosophy                                                       J.N. Mohanty                                                    937

    "From Tribal Brotherhood to
    Universal Otherhood": On
    Benjamin Nelson                                            Edmund Leites                                                    955

Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research.  His most recent work is The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizon of Modernity/Postmodernity (1992).

Kevin Crochetiere is a nontraditional student in psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Fred Dallmayr is Dee Chair Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government at the University of Notre Dame.  His works include Hegel: Modernity and Politics (1993) and The Other Heidegger (1993).

Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations at Columbia University.  He recently published The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Amageddon (1989).

George Kateb is professor of politics at Princeton University.  His newest work is Emerson and Self-Reliance (1994).

Heidi Keller is a nontraditional student in psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

D. Brett King is a senior instructor in psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  He is currently working on A Biography of Max Wertheimer with Michael Wertheimer (forthcoming).

Edmund Leites is professor of philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York.  He is currently working on "Reflections of a Child of a Heidelberg Emigre: Can the Lost Germany Be Recovered?"

J.N. Mohanty is professor of philosophy at Temple University.  He recently published Essays on Indian Philosophy (1993).

Michael Wertheimer is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  His most recent work (with D. Brett King) is "Max Wertheimer's American Sojourn, 1933-1943" (1994).