assuming this description is correct, shusterman's pragmatism lies somewhere in the middle between the above-mentioned positions. although his analytic background and acceptance of some of rorty's ideas (he even subsumes his and rorty's thought under a common category of "reconstructivist genealogical-poetic pragmatism") seemingly make him a neo-analytic pragmatist, the stress he puts on the importance of the notion of experience, which rorty would like to substitute with the notion of language, chimes perfectly with the neo-classical stance.