What is the theme of western culture after World War II?

The mainstream of western cultural thoughts

The Second World War made the western society experience an unprecedented strong impact and unprecedented disaster. After the war, in the face of ruins and chaos, western traditional ideology and culture faced collapse and severe challenges. In the atmosphere of reflection and exploration, western cultural thoughts have experienced great development and evolution. The mainstream of social and cultural thoughts in this period is to criticize the past values, outlook on life and social outlook in painful reflection and seek new values, outlook on life and social outlook in order to get rid of the spiritual depression in western society. Therefore, in the fields of philosophy, economics, history, literature, sociology, politics, education, psychology, ethnology, linguistics, science, information science, futurology, management and so on, new ideological trends emerge one after another. During this period, the new ideological trend not only became the inevitable product of social development, but also became the new spiritual sustenance and desire of the public, and it was also the fashion of thinkers, historians, artists and economists.

Objectively speaking, the new cultural trend of thought is a true reflection of the development of contemporary western society. Although there is also a distorted reflection, it is not its mainstream feature.