title: Monge e O Executivo: Uma Historia Sobre A Essencia (Em Portugues do Brasil)
author: JAMES C.HUNTER
description: O Monge e o Executivo: uma Histria sobre a Essncia da Liderana [Paperback] JAMES C. HUNTER
zlib_text: Décio Krause and Antonio Videira (eds.), Boston Studies in the Philosophy of
  Science, _Brazilian Studies in Philosophy and History of Science_ , An account
  of recent works, DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9422-3_1, © Springer Science+Business
  Media B.V. 2011
  
  1\. Introduction
  
  Michel Paty1 ![Contact Information](contact.gif)
  
  (1) | Equipe Rehseis, UMR 7596, CNRS et Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot,
  Paris, France  
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  ![Contact Information](contact.gif)|  **Michel** **Paty** ****  
   **Email:**[michel.paty@univ-paris-diderot.fr](mailto:michel.paty@univ-paris-
  diderot.fr)  
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  Abstract
  
  When the organizers of this book kindly asked me to write the Introduction, I
  felt at the same time honoured and abashed (embarrassé), both because of my
  nationality, being not a Brazilian but a French. I felt honoured and pleased,
  for it meant that they consider me to some extent as pertaining to Brazilian
  culture, and particularly to the Brazilian academic milieu of philosophers.
  True, other 