Perhaps, but adequately hides far too much. Barbara Herrnstein Smith makes the same mistake. The French revolution kept right on with the Enlightenment, no matter how many heads rolled. Perhaps the only model for a break with the existing order would be carpet bombing. If Postmodern criticism makes any sense, one should not even talk about reinterpretation as a limit.
Interpretation is all one has.
Unfortunately, even Leja's nuanced account sometimes falls into demands for more. As I mean in elucidating the sublime, the mythic self will not go away without a fight. Later artists build on each of the terms that went into the modernist sublime. At the same time, they demythologize it, replacing cathedrals and chapels with Minimalist boxes and dung-laden Madonnas. In the process, they destroy the whole idea of the sublime pretty much for good.