It could be said, as an initial approximation, that the focus on experience is to pragmatism what the focus on meaning is to hermeneutics. Whether it is the role of induction in the logic of signs (Peirce), the role of experimental inquiry in scientific research (James) or that of “art as experience” (Dewey), in all its dimensions, is clearly a signature feature of pragmatism. And whether it is the attention paid to interpreting the signs of the living world among the Ancients (Hippocrates, Galen), or in the focus on understanding discourse among the moderns (Ast, Meier, Schleiermacher), or again among the contemporaries (Heidegger, Gadamer) in the centrality of language to any understanding of the world or of being, the question of meaning is clearly a hallmark of hermeneutics. Rather than opposing hermeneutics and pragmatism, this contribution, without denying their differences, aims to lay the foundations of a pragmatist hermeneutics by taking the relationship between meaning and experience as a common thread. The challenge is to analyze this relationship from three distinct angles: immediate experience (and spontaneous understanding), acquired experience (and pre-understanding) and creative experience (and interpretation). From each of these perspectives, the aim is to grant a meaningful place to non-verbal—and specifically bodily—experience, which calls for a somahermeneutics.