Circular economy thinking has become the subject of academic enquiry across several disciplines recently. Yet whilst its technical and business angles are more widely discussed, its philosophical underpinnings and socio-economic implications are insufficiently investigated. In this article, we aim to contribute to their understanding by uncovering the circular economy role in shaping a new vision , highlighting the social and economic dimensions of future imaginaries and the mechanisms that can enable them to bring about change in the social context. We believe that defining the vision that the circular economy is contributing to shape is key to explain its conceptual framework and activities. Drawing on the concept of fictional expectations, we uncover one of the plausible social dimensions inherent to the circular economy thinking thereby opening up a new perspective on the current debate in the circular economy literature wherein authors, by contrast, are emphasising the lack of an explicit social dimension. Fictional expectations are introduced to refer to those imaginaries of the future that can catalyse social action in the present and counteract societal addictions , in which modern society seems to be trapped. We show how a circular economy inspired vision can be instrumental to the emergence of a fictional expectation that can provide therapies to the current societal addiction of wasteful production and consumption systems. This philosophical background allows us to provide, in conclusion, a new conceptualisation of the circular economy as a cognitive framework instrumental to the emergence of a future imaginary.

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循环经济作为克服社会成瘾的虚构期望。我们的立场在哪里？

循环经济思想近来已成为多个学科的学术研究课题。然而，虽然它的技术和商业角度得到了更广泛的讨论，但其哲学基础和社会经济影响却没有得到充分研究。在本文中，我们旨在通过揭示循环经济在塑造新愿景中的作用、突出未来想象的社会和经济维度以及使他们能够在社会环境中带来变化的机制，来促进他们的理解。我们认为，定义循环经济有助于塑造的愿景是解释其概念框架和活动的关键。借鉴虚构期望的概念，我们揭示了循环经济思维固有的一个看似合理的社会维度，从而为当前循环经济文献中的辩论开辟了新的视角，相比之下，作者强调缺乏明确的社会维度。虚构的期望被引入，指的是那些可以催化当前社会行动并抵消现代社会似乎被困在其中的社会成瘾的未来想象。我们展示了循环经济启发的愿景如何有助于虚构期望的出现，这种期望可以为当前社会对浪费生产和消费系统的成瘾提供治疗。这种哲学背景使我们能够得出结论，