曼海姆晚期开始关注社会危机、社会重建等重要议题,他的“为自由而计划”的社会重建理论很有研究价值和实践意义,但却没有受到学术界应有的重视。曼海姆认为,现代社会存在的危机的主要原因在于自由放任原则和无计划原则之间的冲突,为此,他提出为自由而计划的策略,通过社会技术的改进来助推自由民主的发展,通过人的改造来实现社会重建的目标。现阶段我们重新梳理曼海姆经典的社会重建理论,不仅可以更好地呈现其社会重建理论研究的思想内涵,而且也有利于为当今转型期的中国提供实践指导。 Mannheim began to pay attention to such important issues as social crisis and social reconstruction lately. His theory of social reconstruction “planned for freedom” is of great value and practical significance, but it has not been given the academic attention. Mannheim believes that the main reason for the crisis in modern society lies in the conflict between the principle of laissez-faire and the unplanned principle. To this end, he proposed a strategy for freedom and boosted the development of freedom and democracy through the improvement of social technology , Through the transformation of people to achieve the goal of social reconstruction. At this stage, we can sort out the classic social reconstruction theory of Mannheim not only to better present the ideological connotation of its social reconstruction theory research, but also to provide practical guidance for China in the transitional period.