Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University.

This book is a bold attempt to reconceptualize excellence. It is no longer the virtue of doing something well or the mean of two extremes, but a clearing which allows humans to manifest their potentialities and creatively resist obstacles. The concept of excellence is emancipated from the excessive concern with order and good citizenry to become a libratory principle for interrogating all social institutions in the name of a better future.

Chapter 1 Prologue Part 2 Part I: What is Excellence? Chapter 3 Chapter One: The Making of a New Meaning of Excellence Chapter 4 Chapter Two: Exegeting Excellence Chapter 5 Chapter Three: The Core Features of Excellence Chapter 6 Chapter Four: New Being: Participation and Imitation Chapter 7 Chapter Five: Justice, Love and Hope Part 8 Part II: Social Ethical Framework Chapter 9 Chapter Six: A Framework for Social Ethics Chapter 10 Chapter Seven: Social Practice as Boundary of Possibility Chapter 11 Chapter Eight: Excellence and Economic Development Chapter 12 Epilogue