Human,All Too Human (published in 1878) and concluding some time before The Gay Science (published in 1882). The connotation of "fling" as being somewhat fleeting and not especially serious or heartfelt is also intended, for not only does Nietzsche give up his positivism after a short time, but even while professing it holds at the same time some of the views which will develop into the perspectivism for which he is better known in his later works." /> Nietzsche's fling with positivism - Cohen Jonathan | sdvig press