philosophy

I. THE DEADLOCKS OF POSTCLASSICISM.
Social progress which dual nature contains both boon for ones and bane for others, may be pictured as a train with limited numbers of births: those who had the good fortune to get a ticket smile friendlily and enjoy the landscapes, while those who had the misfortune to remain on the roadside throw stones, put spokes in the wheels or try to squeeze into the last carriage...

The Industrial Revolution, whose iron hand had mercilessly broken obstacles on the way of economic development, marked the dawn of a new era in the history of mankind and provided human beings with the power they could not even dream before. The increased productivity of labour led to emergence of a new type of society with high standards of living, wide civic rights and liberties and rapid pace of cultural progress: for the last two centuries almost all sciences and arts had advanced more than for the previous millenniums...
All, but philosophy!
The great knowledge about the most general and fundamental principles of Being that served as magistra vitae for many generations nowadays suffers the deepest crisis: it has lost common subjects and methods, correlation with practice and close contact with broad intellectual public. Philosophy has split into numerous schools producing sophisticated concepts having no consistency both with each other and with classic theories. Although the volume of works is immense the trust for philosophy has declined dramatically in comparison with previous periods when philosophers created theories in which they developed the ideas of their predecessors and viewed all aspects of objective reality.
The thinkers of industrial and post–industrial societies demonstrated their distrust for metanarratives and concentrated their activity on solving pretty narrow circle of problems. This led to parcellization of philosophic reflection and deep inconsistency between various branches of the knowledge (ontology, epistemology, philosophy of history, etc.). Pluralistic approach especially popular in 20 century had eroded firm basis of commonly accepted ideas and postulates and turned philosophic studies into an intellectual mob in which one may easily mire down.
None-the less such state of things does not confuse modern philosophers too much. The most of them are sure: it is not philosophy but the society that suffers deep crisis causing dehumanization of life, devaluation of moral principles, misuse of scientific and technical inventions, etc., etc.
But in spite of all let us assume (and not without reason) that the contemporary society is steadily developing and turning into more and more civilized and comfortable for living one, so what are the real causes that urged thinkers to renounce all traditions of the past and start paving their own ways to the Truth.