Full Idea
Since Kant, objectivity is no longer defined with reference to the object in itself, but rather with reference to the possible universality of an objective statement.
Gist of Idea
Since Kant, objectivity is defined not by the object, but by the statement's potential universality
Source
Quentin Meillassoux (After Finitude; the necessity of contingency [2006], 1)
Book Reference
Meillassoux: 'After Finitude: the necessity of contingency', ed/tr. Brassier,R [Bloomsbury 2008], p.15
A Reaction
Meillassoux disapproves of this, as a betrayal by philosophers of the scientific revolution, which gave us true objectivity (e.g. about how the world was before humanity).