A study of the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its relevancefor the neopragmatism of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, StanleyFish, and Cornel West. In offering neopragmatism, taken from Emerson, James,and Peirce, this book suggests that the neopragmatists' arguments can besharpened across a variety of disciplines.