Spinoza: The 'marrano of the Reason⟫ as Baroque Thinker

Spinoza might be considered as baroque thinker, representative in the Europe of the 17th century, of what the Mexican philosopher Bolivar Echeverria de- fines as baroque ethos. The author of the Ethics and the Theological-Political Trea-tise was born within a family with Spanish-Portuguese ancestry, whose members were Jewish converts to Catholicism, the so-called 'marranos >>, who converted back to Judaism in their exile to the Netherlands. That path is culminated when Spinoza is expelled from the synagogue for his critical thinking. As a result, he was called the 'marrano of the reason >> by Yirmiyahu Yovel. Coming back to his work allows one to recover Spinoza for a marrana look about Spain and for a reconsid-eration of the modernity from a baroque spinozism with Iberian links. The hallmark of such double marranismo in his life and his work goes with the baroque condition of Spinoza's philosophy, from which his liberator ethics is highlighted, between the metaphysical transtheism and the radical democracy, which represents a valuable legacy for our neobaroque present day.