Abstract: Through the dual prism of disease and cure, this article reexamines the equivocations of “curiosity” under five different aspects: the moral one, as part of the crisis of inherited values; the political one, as a contagious illness in times of turmoil; the anthropological one, as natural and original human condition; the medical one, as a symptom of mental morbidity and vitality; and the epistemological one, as experience of the limits and the possibilities in a world in perpetual motion.
