Lars Iyer, David Winters and Wittgenstein Jr

Thu 30 October 2014

Heffers Book Shop

Wittgenstein Jr concerns the academic career of a group of Cambridge philosophy students, deeply under the influence of their supervisor, whom they nickname Wittgenstein Jr.

Lars Iyer is head of Philosophy at Newcastle University, and is the author of the novels Spurious, Dogma, and Exodus, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Goldsmiths Prize. He is a member of the Folio Prize Academy, an international group of writers and critics, who are immersed in the world of books. His literary manifesto, "Nude in Your Hot Tub, Facing the Abyss" remains the most read article on The White Review's website.

David Winters is a literary critic and Cambridge Academic, also interested in continental philosophy and metaphilosophy, the history of concepts, and the sociology of ideas and intellectuals.

He has written criticism and journalism for a range of print and online publications, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, The Independent, Radical Philosophy, The White Review, and The Literary Review, among others.

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