Jealousy – A Forbidden Passion Sissa Paperback Polity Press 9781509511853

Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion\nby Giulia Sissa\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Giulia Sissa\nTitle: Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and political philosophy\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781509511853\nISBN-10: 1509511857\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nAmorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful. \nYet for centuries moralists have poured scorn and contempt on a feeling that, in their view, we should fight in every possible w.