Habermas explained student revolt by fusing conflict-displacement theory with Marcuse’s new sensibility.

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, 662

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names two theoretical components — the theory of conflict displacement and Marcuse’s new sensibility — as a conceptual framework for diagnosing protest.
• XREF: Marcuse’s thesis of a new sensibility corresponds to the permissive-upbringing and affluence explanation of the 1968 student revolts.