existentialism vs nihilism

[kahljorn]

"hom I've never known to use the term and its applicability to him is something of a debate)"

From what I understand Nietzche actually used something like the term nihilism to describe the state which christian ethics would put us in. I think it was something about attaching yourself to unattainable values and the chaos which proceeds recognizing that you cannot attain them.

I think he talks about it in Will to power in the first chapter.

I know the stranger is supposed to be about a person who thinks that everything is meaningless, but I'm not positive if that's actually what he thinks.