What school of social thought argues that everything is relative, fragmented, temporary, contingent, ephemeral, and lacks any substantive reality, and thus is generally an anti-positivist perspective?

answer: musical connotation

leonard b. meyer (1918-2007) was an american composer, author and philosopher. his work emotion and meaning in music is perhaps the first major treatise on music. it is a philosophical and psychological work, greatly influenced by koffka (one of the major proponents of gestalt psychology). his work deals with the problem of musical meaning and musical communication.