Umberto Eco (p.) 1932) an outstanding Italian philosopher, media historian, specialist in semiotics, literary critic, writer, author of well-known novels to the Russian reader “The Name of the Rose” (1980), “Foucault’s Pendulum” (1988), “The Island Before” (1995) and “Prague Cemetery” (2010) . The collection "Create an Enemy for Yourself" has a subtitle - "texts on occasion", as it includes essays and articles written "on request" - for thematic journal issues or on the basis of reports at conferences devoted to different fields of knowledge, as well as articles of an acutely polemical nature … Different “cases” different topics.. [DT Why do people need to create an enemy for themselves? When the soul appears in human embryos? How does technological progress change the essence and tasks of the diplomatic service? Often these texts are humorous or parody, I wrote it in CM. [ I want to have fun with ,. As well as readers.