{"id":62909,"date":"2025-01-30T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=62909"},"modified":"2025-01-30T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:26:13","slug":"camus-and-lusseyran-thinkers-of-light-in-the-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/camus-and-lusseyran-thinkers-of-light-in-the-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Camus and Lusseyran: Thinkers of Light in the Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"They were handsome, smoked a lot, loved women, nature, and light\u2014and they resisted the Nazi occupation. Albert Camus and Jacques Lusseyran, whose meeting in 1953 was captured by a photographer, are united by their deep search for meaning in a dark world. A reading in dialogue.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe same scene, eleven years apart, two cars: 1960\u2014Albert Camus drives to meet three women with whom he\u2019s arranged a date; 1971\u2014Jacques Lusseyran travels with his third wife.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. For unexplained reasons, Camus\u2019s car veers off the road and crashes into a tree in the middle of the countryside; Lusseyran\u2019s car suffers a similar fate. In both cars, manuscripts are found: Albert Camus\u2019 is a draft of what (thanks to his daughter Catherine) became The First Man; Jacques Lusseyran\u2019s is a lecture h<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were handsome, smoked a lot, loved women, nature, and light\u2014and they resisted the Nazi occupation. Albert Camus and Jacques Lusseyran, whose meeting in 1953 was captured by a photographer, are united by their deep search for meaning in a dark world. A reading in dialogue. The same scene, eleven years apart, two cars: 1960\u2014Albert Camus drives to meet three women with whom he\u2019s arranged a date; 1971\u2014Jacques Lusseyran travels with his third wife.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. For unexplained reasons, Camus\u2019s car veers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21274,"featured_media":62561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8848,8793],"tags":[11603,8798,11607],"class_list":["post-62909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-literature","category-philosophy","tag-ausgabe-1-2-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-5-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}