Nihilist or Positivist?

Gottfried Benn

From the Marginalia:

(On the situation of man today) Perhaps we would prefer to dispense with the word "nihilism." Indeed, nihilism has been a nearly content-less term for two decades. We have incorporated this term - to use another modern expression - we have absorbed and digested it. Modern man does not think nihilistically; he brings order into his…