Habermas’s account of student protest merged conflict-displacement theory with Marcuse’s new sensibility thesis

Evidence

His explanation was the product of a combination of the theory of conflict displacement in late capitalist society with Marcuse’s thesis of a new sensibility, a thesis that had been intended partly as diagnosis and partly as utopia. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2650

Categorization

• XREF: Names Marcuse’s ‘new sensibility’ thesis, a recurring theme in Frankfurt School discussions of counterculture and protest. — connects to: Habermas saw the student path as a tightrope between apathy and revolutionary oversimplification — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2615; Student activism contextualized Marcuse’s essay on repressive tolerance — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2587; Habermas linked student protest to recovering science’s emancipatory potential — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2613
• DEFINE: Introduces the concept of ‘conflict displacement in late capitalist society’ as a technical explanatory framework.