Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire
The Financier as Artist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carl Smith (0000-0002-3996-7978, corresponding author), Carl S Smith |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-162 |
| Publication date | 1976-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-007-02-05 |
| OpenAlex | W2009160052 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Cowperwood was innately and primarily an egoist and intellectual, though blended strongly therewith was a humane and democratic spirit. We think of egoism and intellectualism as closely confined to the arts. Finance is an art. And it presents the operations of the subtlest of the intellectuals and of the egoists. Cowperwood was a financier. Instead of dwelling on the works of nature, its beauty and subtlety, to his material disadvantage, he found a happy mean, owing to the swiftness of his intel- lectual operations, whereby he could, intellectually and emotionally, rejoice in the beauty of life without interfer- ing with his perpetual material and financial calcula- tions. 1
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Democracy · Disadvantage · Epistemology · Ethical egoism · Intellectualism · Literature · Political science · Sociology · The arts · Trilogy · Visual arts · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |