In "Scenes of Theory II", the adventures of representation are examined both in philosophy and in theater theory. These adventures first appear in myth (the first great adventure of human thought) and then take place in various individual scenes. These scenes are formed in the various fields of theater theory (in the critique of theatrical performances, directing, the actor's identity, the complex interweaving of texts and performances, the possibility of theatrical events).

However, they are also formed in the realm of contemporary philosophical thought: in the affirmative culture and aesthetic form of Herbert Marcuse, in the social imagination of Cornelius Castoriadis, in the heterotopia and teatrum philosophicum of Michel Foucault, in the performativity of Judith Butler, in the death of the author and the textualization of Roland Barthes, in the deconstructive readings of Jacques Derrida on Rousseau and Artaud, in the self-constitution of Paul Ricoeur and Charles Taylor, in the agonistic fields of Chantal Mouffe, and others. The representation of roles in identities, texts in theatrical performances, ideas in bodily action, or values in institutions: these are some of the many forms that the game of representation takes, as it unfolds in the scenes of theater and philosophy in such a way that what is represented and the act of representation itself cannot easily be separated.