Rubem Alves

Trained as a psychoanalyst through the Brazilian Association of Psychoanalysis of São Paulo.

Assistant Professor of Social Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Rio Claro (1969).

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) (1974). He was promoted to professor (1979) and associate professor (1980), both at the Faculty of Education, UNICAMP.

Besides his activities as a university professor and researcher, Alves was a prolific writer of books and articles in journals and newspapers on education, psychology and life in general. From 1986 he was a regular columnist in Correio Popular, the main newspaper in his hometown, Campinas, in São Paulo state. He published more than 40 books, several of which have been translated into German, French, English, Italian, Spanish and Romanian.

During his career he collaborated with notable personalities, including Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day, and Paulo Freire.

His book, The Poet, The Warrior, The Prophet, is an important text in the field of theopoetics.

During the last years of his life, Alves wrote several children's books. Alves died on 19 July 2014, in Campinas, Brazil.