해석학으로서 행정학의 가능성에 대한 검토

Abstract

A hermeneutical study in the realm of social sciences is on the way to expanding its realm variously. Theorists under the hermeneutical tradition mainly focus on ‘praxis’ as a self-interpretation within the historical contexts of social actors. A vital factor of the hermeneutical logos is thus contextualized self-interpretation. This article attempts to explain the application of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s ‘philosophical hermeneutics’ to the realms of public administration by focusing on the framework of ‘local narrative.’ This framework might consist of meaning, action, agency, structure, institution, and even power. Its ultimate goal never aims to make the “grand” narrative. Rather it attempts to reach the deeper understanding of the things within the realm of public administration. The guidance of a narrative weaving various efforts for understanding, effective communication, holism might be actualized by our localized knowledge and partial perspectives founded upon the hermeneutic circle, the historically effected consciousness and the lingusticality of understanding in Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics.