CFP: Wunderkammer – Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Forms of Wonder
Graduate Conference PhD Course in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures Roma Tre University December 15-16, 2025 Thaumazein is the verb that, in ancient Greek, indicated the act of wonderment, the very spark of a thought that tended towards knowledge. Plato (Theaetetetus, 155d) and Aristotle (Metaphysics, I, 2, 982b) saw this deeply human capacity as a hypothetical origin of philosophy itself.
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