Susan Sontag said that some time ago. Reeducation decided that since I could think, I must not have feeling, and that was, of course, a bad thing.
This is why actual education is a good thing, and philosophy is more interesting than psychology or at least, than psychotherapy. I am interested now in the point that the distinction between thought and feeling is the basis of all anti-intellectual views.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Love this quote. One of my best friends is a philosopher, a virtue epistemologist, and she’s interested in thought and feeling too. It’s something I want to talk with her about. I’d say my friendship with her (which has always involved both thought and feeling!) is a model for the kinds of things I want to write about in writing about intellectual girlhood–including how thought and feeling manifest themselves in companionship.
Very true. She may have gotten that in part from Roland Barthes who rails about that in Mythologies. It is everywhere if you want to study poetry and get accused of only liking cerebral things, or of overthinking the art form in general. If you can’t feel you really can’t think rationally either, because you are not attentive to things that should be warning signs.
This is essentially an argument that comes out of the 50’s. It is also heavily gendered, with intellect seen as masculine and emotion as feminine.
I wouldn’t mind a little more rigor these days, to tell you the truth. We are awash in kitsch and schmalz.