Before 1920, the success of Newton's and Einsteins theories, and of science and math in general, were so great that everyone conflated them with reality itself. In my reading on the philosophy of science and mathematics, I've seen that the basic trend for the last 60 years (actually sparked by Kurt Godel in 1931, but nobody believed/understood the implications until later) has been to understand the limitations of mathematics and logic. Basically: physical phenomena are a smallish part of what is important for humans.

Today, at the tail end of the public's awakening to this fact, there is a huge need for something new. What we need is not just an explanation of how science/math/econ is limited (this is done well by Morris Kline in 'Mathematics: the end of certainty', Nicholas Tassim Taleb, everyone who writes about chaos, and others), but about how they fit - alongside art, exploration, and intuition - into the actual and supremely effective social, biological, and cognitive processes that science can't/won't/hasn't developed a place for.

(this could also be connected to the burgeoning debate about the inadequacies of the academic system)