Reciprocità asimmetrica, economia circolare e ciclo dei rifiuti

The tendency to imagine the environmental crisis as a mere technical-financial question drastically reduces the possibility of finding solutions. We end up neglecting both the necessary redistribution of common resources and the ideal of humanity below. The specific purpose of this paper is to define some criteria for analyzing the environmental issue, trying to go beyond the more usual anthropologies. The problem is not only the prevalence of homo œconomicus, but also of holistic approaches, which in their own way and in particular for the environmental issue, end up being reductionist. The overcoming of these opposite tendencies can occur by expanding the concept of reciprocity. It allows to fully use the sociological universe, in particular as regards its application to territorial phenomena. The paper is divided into four parts: first a brief illustration of some interpretations of the environmental issue, showing how it is possible to extend them with the concept of asymmetric reciprocity; then follows a brief discussion on how this last category has been interpreted above all in the philosophical field; we continue showing the concrete analytical contribution of the category by taking the waste cycle as an example of circular economy. It ends by trying to take stock of the cognitive contribution of asymmetric reciprocity and what further steps can be taken to get out of both atomistic and holistic reductionism, stigmatized by the curators of the entire volume