ABSTRACT
Having started by looking at the ways in which ‘eurocentrism’ has been used, we have begun to see how the discourse on eurocentrism is related to a wide range of intricate social phenomena, the europic complex. This complex encompasses ways of thinking and of acting, which are related to the production and transformation of structured social relations. The initial, brief conception of europism is of processes involving the theoretical and practical illicit universalisation of European categories. These processes are dialectical in the double sense that they are both motivated by and constituted by contradictions. The primary locations of contradictions are (i) in theory, the location of anthropic universal categories of thought, and (ii) in social relations, the site of really abstract universals. Bringing these ideas together gives the following account of europism: the dialectical universalisation of theoretical and real europic abstractions under the sign of their universality.1
