He was drawn to crumbling empires, upheaval, moral crisis and grim struggles that whittled heroism down to a human scale.
Crime fiction, says Tana French, is ideally placed to explore the huge collective moral and psychological upheaval that hit Ireland over the last couple of decades.
It is the moral and social upheaval that is promised by such deformation which galvanizes Eisenstein, who worships the elasticity of cartoon characters, ascribing to it what he calls a "literalization of metaphor".
Thus these upheavals represent further confirmation of the moral and organisational superiority of the western order.
Modest in appearance, Linda Grant's The Clothes on their Backs quietly contains tumultuous stories of persecution, migration, social upheaval and moral compromise – much like its secretive characters.
Conservatives blame the moral relativism that swept the church in the upheavals of the 1970s, when the worst abuses and cover-ups took place.
In a career that spanned 50 years, Mr. Benvenuti reflected a changing Italy, from the desolation of the postwar period to the country's growing prosperity, its political upheavals and the shifts in its moral codes.
Luther's 500th anniversary was its impetus, but the show's focus on art during a period of deep moral crisis couldn't be timelier, given the threatening upheaval Americans are experiencing today.
He deserves to be counted as one of the handful of individuals who have helped to condition moral and ethical attitudes during a period of great upheaval and self-doubt".
Also, law professor Anthony T. Kronman argues that economic and social upheaval only highlights the need to re-examine moral issues.But "the need for my older view of the humanities is, if anything, more urgent today," he added, referring to the widespread indictment of greed, irresponsibility and fraud that led to the financial meltdown.
