Introduction: At the Edge of Rationality;PART ONE Prologue: Mandela as "Human, All Too Human" ;PART TWO Frameworks for Understanding Existential Threats 1 The Hidden Secret of Mandela's Leadership: Leading through Moods and Emotions; 2 Conceptual Frameworks of the Book; 3 Apartheid as a Breakdown in Relationality; Reflective Pause for Practitioners;PART THREE From Routine to Rupture, Estrangement to Engagement 4 From Ubuntu to Exile: The Breaking of Relation; 5 Mandela and the Country Boy Within: From Convention to Disruption to Transformation; 6 From Estrangement to Political Engagement; 7 Socrates and Mandela: Courtroom Philosophy as World-Disclosure; Reflective Pause for Readers;PART FOUR The Existential Challenges of Prison 8 Mandela's Metamorphosis in Prison; 9 Mandela's Meditative Transformation; 10 Mandela's Transformational Leadership in Prison: Reframing and Reconfiguring as Forms of Change; 11 Power in Powerlessness: Finding Freedom from Within Constraint; 12 The Power of Presence: Disclosing New Worlds through Leadership; Reflective Pause for Readers;PART FIVE Mandela's Response to the Existential Threat of a Political Assassination 13 Setting the Context for Mandela's Response to the Existential Threat Posed by the Assassination of Chris Hani; 14 The Existential Language of Mandela's Address: Calling a Nation into Being; 15 From Calculative to Reflexive Phenomenological and Meditative Thinking: Mandela's Address After Hani's Assassination; Reflective Pause for Practitioners;PART SIX Mandela's Leadership as a Way of Being-in-the-World 16 Mandela as Existential Therapist: Leaping Ahead in Crisis and Transformation; 17 Mandela's Strategic Leadership Amid Existential Disruption; 18 Mandela's Emergent Lived Experience of Ubuntu Philosophy; 19 The Art of Dialogue Across Difference: Mandela's Ubuntu Existential Process; 20 Mandela's Practical and Existential Wisdom: An Aristotelian Lens; 21 Beyond The Prince : Mandela's Ubuntu Transformation of Power; Reflective Pause for Practitioners;PART SEVEN From Philosophical Failure to Therapeutic Leadership 22 Mandela's Letting-Be and Heidegger's Assertion: Two Responses to Existential Crisis; 23 Conclusion: Mandela's Existential Ubuntu Therapeutic Leadership Attunement; Reflective Pause: Dwelling Within Existential Crisis; Appendix One: Mapping the Arc of Existential Disruption and Emergence; Appendix Two: Glossary of Philosophical and Framework Terms.