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Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity is a richly illustrated volume relating a series of events - a photography exhibit, lectures, commentary, and audience reactions by people ages seven to ninety-two - held in the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's tercentennial in 2012. Growing out of the unexpected convergence of a lecture series and art exhibit held in South Bend, Indiana, and a documentary film that was shot simultaneously in Compigne, France, the participants had several goals: to show why Rousseau's moral philosophy is important for our time; to argue for the importance of subjective art forms such as photography, video letters, and autobiography; to reproduce the stunning photojournalism commissioned by Amnesty International to document and dignify people who suffer human rights abuses, such as substandard housing, nationless-ness, and ethnic prejudice; and to inspire new kinds of intergenerational teaching.