Lars Iyer is Professor of Philosophy at Newcastle University.
He is the author of two books on Maurice Blanchot: Blanchot's Communism: Art, Philosophy, Politics and Blanchot's Vigilance: Phenomenology, Literature, Ethics and the trilogy composed of Magma, Dogma and Exodus, all of them widely acclaimed by the public and critics. In the fall of 2014 he published his fourth novel, Wittgenstein Jr..