To create is to reveal, says Rousset, who does not turn his back on classical criticism. He comprehends it, rather, and enters into dialogue with it: “Prerequisite secret and unmasking of this secret by the work: a reconciliation of ancient and modern aesthet-ics can be observed, in a certain way, in the possible correspondence of
the preexisting secret to the Idea of the Renaissance thinkers stripped of
all Neo-Platonism.”