Thought Production Engine
The Religion and Thought Service of Iran Book News Agency (IBNA) – Elahe Shams: If we call the twentieth century the era of translation, we have not gone astray. Iranian translators in this period were not just carriers of meaning, but creators of the language of thought. Today, however, the world of translation is rapidly transforming: software programs quickly translate sentences with astonishing accuracy, but is this speed the same as understanding?
At a time when the distinction between translation and re-reading of thought has faded, I went to Fouad Habibi, a faculty member of Kurdistan University, and a writer and translator in the field of philosophy and political thought, to ask him about the relationship between knowledge, language, and the translator’s responsibility in the new era.
