ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that nature has always been agential and political, and further, that uncovering the politics of mono-logical thinking, such as hyper-monotheism in religion and universal reason in science, places the modern understanding of the world as just that: an understanding of the world rather than an inevitable tail end of a progressive narrative of human beings’ struggles and triumph over nature. Placing the narrative of Modernity alongside other narratives helps to unravel the dimorphic categories of Modernity. In doing so, nature becomes valuable again, and a partner in planetary politics, or in other words, nature once again becomes a place of spirituality and politics.
