ABSTRACT
The development of literary neopragmatism exerts an important, if not always acknowledged, effect on its philosophical counterparts. This is true of recent literary criticism in general, which, as Knapp and Michaels point out, had ventured so far from literary texts and questions of authorial intention that it had become its own distinct culture of criticism. That culture now extends beyond interpretation and aesthetics into the traditionally philosophical and theological domain of the study of knowledge
Recently, several notable philosophical neopragmatists, like Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam and Stanley Cavell, who trained and made their careers in analytic thought are showing this influence. Most notably, they are collectively adopting an un-analytic, literary-autobiographical voice. This new voice, perhaps even more than the return of interest in pragmatism that is supposedly bringing it about, is a clear indication that something has changed.
