| Xavier Rubert de Ventós | |
| Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
| Term Start: | 1 January 1986 |
| Term End: | 18 July 1994 |
| Constituency: | Spain |
| Office1: | Congress of Deputies in the Cortes Generales |
| Term Start1: | 10 November 1982 |
| Term End1: | 23 April 1986 |
| Constituency1: | Barcelona |
| Birth Name: | Xavier Rubert de Ventós |
| Birth Date: | 1 September 1939 |
| Birth Place: | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Death Place: | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Party: | PSC–PSOE |
| Children: | Gino Rubert |
Xavier Rubert de Ventós (1 September 1939 – 28 January 2023) was a Spanish philosopher, writer and politician.[1]
Rubert de Ventós obtained a degree in law in 1961 and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Barcelona in 1965 with a thesis on aesthetics entitled La estética de la abstracción (The Aesthetics of Abstraction).
Rubert de Ventós served as a professor of aesthetics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia as well as visiting professor at various American universities including Harvard, Berkeley and Cincinnati.
Rubert de Ventós created the Barcelona–New York Chair of Catalan Culture and Language and was a founding member of the New York Institute for Humanities and of the Institut d'Humanitats de Barcelona.[2]
Rubert de Ventós was arrested three times for his activities as a member of the Workers' Front of Catalonia. In 1975 threats from Falangists forced him into exile in Paris, during which time he was expelled from the University of Barcelona for abandoning his position.
A childhood friend of Pasqual Maragall, Rubert de Ventós joined the Socialist Party of Catalonia and was a member of the Spanish parliament from 1982 to 1986 and of the European Parliament from 1986 to 1994.
Rubert de Ventós was also a member of the Commission for Dignity (comisión para reparar la dignidad y restituir la memoria de las víctimas del franquismo), an entity that calls for the return to their rightful owners of documents that were confiscated at the end of the Civil War and subsequently housed in the General Civil War Archive in Salamanca.
In November 2012, he signed a public manifesto in which he supported the centre-right Convergence and Union (Convergència i Unió) in the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia.