Iranian thinker
Narges Salahshour
Narges SalahshourPolitical Philosophy and TranslationIranian
From my perspective, translation is a form of re-creation.
Life and Thought
Narges Salahshour is a translator and researcher of political philosophy who has rendered important works in the fields of equality, justice, and the politics of happiness into Persian. Focusing on contemporary political philosophy, she sees translation as a tool for the intellectual empowerment of society and for facilitating dialogue between global thought and Iranian culture.
Narges Salahshour is a translator and philosophy researcher whose main activity is concentrated in the field of contemporary political philosophy. She has translated important works by Western philosophers into Persian and, through the purposeful selection of texts, has contributed to enriching Iran's intellectual discourse in areas such as justice, equality, happiness, and political theory.
Among her most significant translations are The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being by Derek Bok (Nashr-e No / Asim), Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon (Soroush-e Molana Publications, edited by Mostafa Malekian), and collaboration on the translation of Issues in Political Theory, edited by Catriona McKinnon (Nashr-e No, with Javad Heydari). These works examine central themes such as moral equality, the role of government in increasing citizens' well-being, political authority, democracy, human rights, and global justice.
Salahshour views translation not merely as the transfer of words, but as a form of creative re-creation and interpretive act that requires an understanding of the author's intellectual world and the cultural context of the target language. She believes the translator is a cultural mediator and promoter of critical thinking, and that specialized translation in the field of political philosophy can help fill the discursive gaps in Iranian society and generate new questions. In conversations, she emphasizes the importance of selecting globally influential works in order to meet the contemporary intellectual needs of society and to shape a new current of thought.
