I argue that humanity and nature are entwined in reality, which requires democratising the public sphere and repoliticising not only society but also its basic institutions one of which is accounting. Notwithstanding the procedural and instrumental problems that bedevil capitalist societies, `hermeneutics as politics' can be developed in a critical and interpretive direction to fully assimilate into normal politics the processes which have been marginalised and submerged by corporate colonisation and the postmodern fragmentation of contemporary society.