Nature is not to be seen as representing spirit or a Goddess. She also rejects extreme holism , where humanity is to be sunk into nature to such an extent that it is indistinguishable. Instead, she wants to extend the denied them under the Cartesian division of the world, so that we reconceive ourselves as more animal and embodied, more natural , and that we reconceive nature as more mind like than the Cartesian conception. Postmodernist strategies bear witness to the dissonance at the heart of western reason and so show responsibility to otherness . Postmodernism is important for understanding of the images of the nature and woman as a new way of conceiving the relationship between intellectual disciplines, challenging conventional academic boundaries, for example between literature and philosophy.
Postmodernist deconstruction bears witness to the Other of Western rationalism.
It counteracts the associated repression of the other in nature, in us, in other persons and other peoples. In the context of such an approach the subject relationship to nature and to women reveals an understanding of the self as subjectivity. It gives a new impetus of using technology to develop a more intimate relationship to the self and the environment. Clever people and clever animals can change their shape, disguising themselves as other species and learning to communicate with them. To be clever means to be able to cross boundaries.