Henry Corbin and 'Being-towards-the-other-side-of-death'

I MENTIONED recently that Henry Corbin had been greatly inspired by the phenomenological approach of Martin Heidegger's 1927 work, Being and Time, but for Corbin it merely served as a philosophical key that pointed towards something of far greater potentiality.

Although Heidegger had discussed the idea that the 'Da' of 'Dasein' relates to one's actual presence in the world, Corbin believes that the German's preoccupation with the notion of 'being-towards-death' is far too entrenched in the affairs of human finitude and that it inevitably confines Heideggerian thought to the kind of historicity that is ultimately incapable of appreciating the comparatively more essential issue of 'being-towards-the-other-side-of-death'.

The fact that Heidegger spent considerably less time dealing with human ethics, Corbin believed, precludes him from realising that his own analysis of 'Dasein' actually contains the essential secret that allows us to move away from a purely secular interpretation of history. Once the limitations of 'being-towards-death' are overcome, the reunification of ethics and ontology will result in a deeper sense of presence and one which can allow mankind to move beyond the horizon of finitude and ask “to what is human presence present?”