From PhilPapers forum Continental Philosophy:

2013-02-24
The Concept of Scene in Derrida
Reply to Juan Peréx
Thank you so much everyone!! I really appreciate your thoughts on this matter. :)


@Karen, thank you so much for your answer. Do you know any other books or articles written by Derrida or by any other scholar that thematizes explicitly the concept of scene? As far as I can tell this concept is profusely used but never explained.

Is it true that Derrida is taking this concept from Freud and Lacan or is he taking it from performance studies or threathical theory, or both?

I followed your recommendation on reading Positions but as far as I can tell the concept of scene hardly appears.

Cutting through any speculative answers,  do you think that is it possible that the concept of scene asumes in Derrida a veritative prerrogative to uncover the truth of the text, one that could be seen as the law of the text, but as such as its own putting forward, and thus as a kind of desmantling of the "truth" process that ocurrs on every text. Could the scenic dimension open up a space of showability in the text that parallell to the process of deconstructing the truth of the text as a way of showing the absesnce of its law could assume any "presentative" power by not succumbing to the reification of the present, and thus, making translucid this very same process?


Could the scene of the text  be the showability of its absent law, a showability that would be temporal, and historical but not be found on the theoritical underways of an absolute truth?