So the genre of the academic treatise is, it may be conceded, the apparent genre of Nietzsche’s writing in Zur Genealogie der Moral, but only apparent, not real, because it represents no more than a temporary stance, a mask worn only for the purposes of certain particular addressings of certain particular audiences.
— Alisdair MacIntyre, ‘Genealogies and Subversions’ in Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (ed. R. Schacht). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, p. 296
