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标题：NIETZSCHE'S EARLY POLITICAL THINKING: “HOMER ON COMPETITION
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作者：Timothy H. Wilson
期刊名称：Minerva : an Internet Journal of Philosophy
印刷版ISSN：1393-614X
出版年度：2005
卷号：9
页码：177-235
出版社：University of Limerick
摘要：The paper is a close reading of Nietzsche's early essay, "Homer on Competition". It explores the understanding of nature as strife presented in that essay, how this strife channels itself into cultural or state forms, and how these forms cultivate the creative individual or genius. The article concludes by asserting that Nietzsche's central point in "Homer on Competition" concerns the contest across the ages that is fought by these geniuses. For Nietzsche, therefore, competition has a political significance ¡ª the forging of the unity and identity of a particular community ¡ª and a transpolitical significance ¡ª the forging of a "republic of geniuses" on the part of artists and philosophers across the expanse of the tradition