Semiotics of Friendship: An Encyclopedic Approach

by Claus Emmeche

A friend should be able to be an attentive listener, which made semiotician Roland Barthes wonder in his intriguing dictionary of love, "cannot friendship be defined as a space with total sonority?". This volume takes on the encyclopedic task - in the sense of Umberto Eco, where an encyclopedia is a very complex sign - to explore friendship in detail, not only as a form of love but in all its complexity as a bond that connects people and forms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111422852
• ISBN13: 9783111422855
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 550 Pages