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- noun The
philosophy ofhistory
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For example, the Jewish scholar, Gershom Scholem, coined the term "historiosophy" to capture the mix of real-life events and metaphysical response that he argued was implicit in mystical experience.
William James, part 6: Mystical states Mark Vernon 2010
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This suggests that kabbalistic circles were using metaphysics to reify historical reality, which led Scholem to coin the term “historiosophy” to describe his understanding of history and metaphysics.
Gershom Scholem Magid, Shaul 2008
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Rather, she works within the frame of historiosophy or psychogeography, being concerned to identify in each place visited "an arrangement of landscape, politics and myth".
Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2010
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