Philip Larkin as a Postmodernist: A Philosophical Approach
Abstract
I wish to argue here that Philip Larkin is a Postmodernist, rather than a Modernist poet. The concept of Postmodernism was formulated towards the end of the 1970s, with features wrongly attributed to Modernism, such as the absence of the old" fixities" that were based on the" whole" of Hegel. With the absence of the Hegelian coherent and totalitarian system, as well as the absence of big systems," form" is said to have degenerated into formlessness, and order into chaos, as Enani says 1. With the fall, or absence of Hegel's, as well as Marx's absolutes, the pluralization of world views has become evident. This has given birth to new social forms, new political and economic orders, and the new science of quantum theory.
Postmodernism started in effect in 1968 with the students' demonstrations in France, England, United States, Egypt, Algeria, Mexico, and Chekoslovakia. It was a revolution for freedom.