The Baroque Conjunction: Spinoza and Popular Life

As far as we know, in the only writing that Horacio Gonzalez explicitly dedicated to the philosophy of Spinoza, he detects in a motif of the Theological-Political Treatise, in the biblical reading of Spinoza, an ambivalence of great fruitfulness for a thought of the popular, not exempt from baroque connotations around mathematics, poetry and madness. This is a text included in a collective book that gathers the interventions that took place in a meeting organized by Gonzalez himself at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires in 1999. The present paper takes as its object this brief writing, and compares it with the question of the baroque in Spinoza, taking especially into account the study developed by Marilena Chaui at the beginning of The Rib of the Real: Immanence and Freedom in Spinoza.