The question "How do we want to live in the future?" is on everyone's lips. But in what world are we actually living right now? As trivial as it sounds, it takes distance to be able to see one's own present world more clearly. Especially in times of crisis, it is important to understand what is going on right now. That is why the Heinrich Böll Foundation is repeating the experiment 40 years after the "Keywords on the Intellectual Situation of the Times" and asking intellectuals about central social and cultural diagnostic keywords of our time. And what is associative on an individual basis, sheds light as a whole on what is unknown and overlooked in our society. From A to Z with this book on the cutting edge.