TY - BOOK ID - 78141931 TI - A Japanese view of nature : the world of living things AU - Imanishi, Kinji AU - Asquith, Pamela J. PY - 2002 SN - 1136131140 1136131221 0203037529 9781136131141 0700716319 9780700716319 0700716327 9780700716326 9780203037522 9781136131226 9781136131301 1136131302 PB - London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Biology KW - Vitalism KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78141931 AB - Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English-speaking world. This book makes the complete text available in English for the first time and provides an extensive introduction and notes to set the work in context. Imanishi's work, based on a very wide knowledge of science and the natural world, puts forward a distinctive view of nature and how it should be studied. Imanishi's work is particularly important as a bac ER -