Umberto Eco (b. 1932)-an outstanding Italian scientist-philosopher, a medical historian, a semiotic specialist, a literary critic, writer, author of the Rosa Name, well-known to the Russian reader (1980), “Pendulum Foucault” (1988), “Island on the eve” (1995) and “Prague cemetery” (2010). The collection “Take yourself an enemy” has a subtitle – “texts on the occasion”, since it included essays and articles written “by order” – for thematic journal numbers or on the basis of reports at conferences dedicated to different fields of knowledge, as well as an articles of an acute -income nature … Different “cases” are different topics. Why do people certainly need to create an enemy for themselves? When does the soul appear in human embryos? How does technological progress change the essence and tasks of the diplomatic service? Often these texts are humorous or parody, that is, he wrote Eco, wanting to entertain both himself and readers.
Author
Eco Umberto
Translator
Visel M., Arykov Yana, Stepantsova Ekaterina
Publisher
Corpus, 2014
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