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Xavier Rubert de Ventós has been a Professor of Aesthetics at the School of Architecture in Barcelona, Santayana Fellow at Harvard University, founding member of The New York Institute for the Humanities and founder of the Mies van del Rohe European Architecture Prize. Furthermore, he’s also been a member of the Spanish and European Parlament.   As a writer, he has an impressive number of works on Philosophy, Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics among which El arte ensimismado (Ariel, 1963, City of Barcelona Prize), Teoría de la sensibilitat (Edicions 62, 1968; Lletra d’Or Prize; Revised edition 2007), La estética y sus herejías (Anagrama, 1980; Anagrama Essay Prize 1980), Per què filosofía (Edicions 62, 1983), El laberinto de la hispanidad (Planeta, 1987, Espejo de España Prize; Anagrama.1999); El cortesano y su fantasma (Destino, 1991; Editorial Sexto Piso, 2008), Ética sin atributos (Anagrama, 1996),), Dios, entre otros inconvenientes (Anagrama, 2000) and Filosofia d’estar per casa (Ara Llibres, 2004) to name just a few.

His latest book, Dimonis ïntims (Edicions 62 in Catalan and Anagrama in Spanish) is a gripping memoir about a time in his life.

 www.rubertdeventos.com