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Crafting Race in Plato and Aristotle is a volume of nineteen essays that explore different views and background assumptions on race and racism in the works of Plato and Aristotle.
Neil Armstrong's historic "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" constitutes one of the most famous public announcements ever recorded. Examining how categorizing affects our perception of distance, Small Steps and Giant Leaps explores what Eviatar Zerubavel terms "The Neil Armstrong Effect," the cognitive tendency to exaggerate perceived differences between cultural categories, and its importance to social classification and category construction.
Why do we prefer to watch scary movies in a crowded theatre? Why is it better that the stands of the concert we're attending are crowded rather than empty? Why do we chat with strangers, spend time with mere acquaintances, and find pandemic lockdowns so dismal?
