Klaus Mollenhauer (1928–1998) is one of the most important German theorists of education in the postwar era. Mollenhauer is often remembered in Germany today for his first book titled Education and Emancipation: Polemical Sketches, but he received international renown for his final monograph, Forgotten Connections: On Culture and Upbringing. Although Mollenhauer characterized Forgotten Connections as actually working to move towards a more “substantial conception of emancipation,” many of his followers and colleagues such as Kaufmann et al. saw it as nothing less than an act of “infidelity to those who had taken on his emancipatory pedagogy” (Kaufmann et al., 1991: 86). In the light of these differences in emphasis and interpretation, this paper provides an overview of Forgotten Connections that (following Wivestad and Saevi) sees it as presenting six main questions and themes—ranging from “Why do we have children” to “How can we respect and draw out a child’s inherent character?” However, in doing so, this paper simultaneously traces Mollenhauer’s own efforts to develop a more substantial concept of personal and political emancipation in this text.

克劳斯·莫伦豪厄（Klaus Mollenhauer，1928–1998年）是战后德国最重要的教育理论家之一。莫伦豪厄（Mollenhauer）的第一本书《教育与解放：政治素描》在德国经常被人记住，但他的最后一部专着《被遗忘的联系：文化与养育》在国际上享有盛誉。尽管Mollenhauer描绘了被遗忘的联系他的许多追随者和同事，例如考夫曼（Kaufmann）等人，实际上是在努力朝着更“实质性的解放概念”迈进。认为这无非是“对那些实行他的解放教育学的人的不忠行为”（Kaufmann等，1991：86）。鉴于重点和解释上的这些差异，本文概述了“被遗忘的联系”（在Wivestad和Saevi之后），它提出了六个主要问题和主题-从“我们为什么要有孩子”到“我们如何才能尊重并画出孩子的天性？” 但是，在此过程中，本文同时追溯了莫伦豪厄在本文中为发展更为实质性的个人和政治解放概念所做的努力。