esotericism

The tendency to promote or desire the esoteric.

Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.

Doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge.

Near-synonym: woo woo

Western esotericism