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행정언어의 의미론적 전환과 행정학의 재구성

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2009, 20(3), pp.1-15
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

김종술 1

1전남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The theory of meaning in public administration helps decide what we have to study, that is, what constitutes the boundary of public administration. The main-stream public adminstration from Wilson to Simon which was built upon the philosophical foundation of positivism, logical positivism in particular, has been established on the basis of a particular linguistic theory of meaning, that is, the meaning theory of scientific language. However, ever since New Public Administration challenged the main-stream public administration in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, until today, a new kind of public administration associated with subjectivistic philosophies such as phenomenology, critical philosophy and hermeneutics has failed to clearly define what its research object is and how it really differs from the main-stream public administration. The purpose of this essay is to clearly show the difference in the theory of meaning between the scientific language which the main-stream public administration adopts and the ordinary language with which the new kind of public administration takes side. In addition, this essay will try to suggest where we should look forwad for the reconstruction of public administration.

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