Essays on Otherness Quotes

“Far from offering us a Copernican recentering, it is quite clearly a Ptolemaic recentering that Kant wishes to effect—far from intuition on one side and concepts 'conforming to the object' on the other, he would rather turn things around and claim that it is the object which 'conforms' to the 'constitution of our faculty of intuition' and our 'a prior concepts.' I do not wish to discuss here the significance of Kantian idealism, but I cannot fail to be troubled by the fact that a movement of radical decentering is being invoked to a support a no less radical recentering.”
― Jean Laplanche, Essays on Otherness