On Language Author:Aldous Huxley Recorded Live - One Cassette Huxley explores both the liberating and limiting aspects of language in our lives and how language can determine our worldviews. He talks of the frustration artists and mystics find in using words to express experience, and how we communicate the incommunicable. This is the fourth in a series of five lectures A... more »ldous Huxley gave in 1961 at M.I.T. The Complete Set of Five Lectures can be purchased as The M.I.T. Lectures. Note: The inherent difficulities of live recordings and the age of some of the recordings can cause variations in the sound quality. ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894-1963 British-born novelist, poet, essayist, philosopher and mystic, Huxley was fascinated by the wilder margins of psychology, medicine, the occult, drugs and religion. He was a man of exceptional vision and foresight, and his breadth of learning was astounding. He wrote over 50 books, including such classics as "The Doors of Perception", "Island", and "Brave New World". "Huxley was a scientist and artist in one, standing for all we most need in a fragmented world where each of us carries a distorting splinter out of some great, shattered, universal mirror. He made it his mission to restore these fragments" - Yehudi Menuhin« less