جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "جواد طباطبایی" در نشریات گروه "علوم اجتماعی"

This paper is a review of JavadTabatabee's book titled A Consideration on the Translation of Modern Political Thought' Texts: A Case Study of Machiavell's Prince. In this book Tabatabaee argues that two main factors of unreliable translation in the field of political philosophy are translator's artistic playing with words and his lack of knowledge about current and important interpretations of major works of political philosophy. In this paper we argue that Tabatabaee's claims are for the most part plausible. Nevertheless it seems that Tabatabaee ignores another important factor responsible for unreliable translations, i.e.translator's alteration of literal translation of philosopher's text by virtue of his assurance that he has a sufficient understanding of philosopher's meaning. Therefore we try to argue that even if we observe two main conditions of good translation mentioned by Tabatabaee, this will not necessarily lead to a reliable translation. Thus in addition to Tabatabaee's two main conditions, translator also must observe the literal approach in translating philosophical texts.