Pragmatism, Law, and Literature

This book uses literary examples to make the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical pragmatism.

For pragmatists, experience is everything; they argue against understanding the world through any abstraction, maintaining that it is simply too complicated to fit into categories or theories. Legal pragmatism is the application of this philosophy to the making of law, the practice of law, and the practice of judging. This book maintains that the best way...