Art and beauty in medieval aesthetics

Umberto Eco (b. 1932)-an outstanding Italian philosopher scientist, medical historian, semiotics specialist, 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 the enemy ”has a subtitle -“ Texts on occasion ”, as it includes essays and articles written“ by order ” - for thematic journal numbers or on the basis of reports at conferences devoted to different fields of knowledge, as well as articles of an acute polemic 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 technical progress changes the essence and tasks of the diplomatic service?
Often these texts are humorous or parody, that is, he wrote to Eco, wanting to entertain both himself and readers