I have only skimmed the article too and I suspect there's a lot I might have a problem with. But this bit near the beginning caught my eye:

"In his judgment, the present existence of philosophy as the abstractly theoretical production and manipulation of concepts divorced from life and serving other forms of knowing what is, other determinations of what is to be done, and other powers shaping the self and enabling life, is a humiliating reduction and ruinous loss"

Here, probably, is some kind of distinction between analytic and continental because I think the latter does still tend to have some influence beyond "manipulation of concepts divorced from life" (though of course one could debate whether it's a good influence or not.)

It's strange, really, when you read some nineteenth century novelists, say, Dostoyevsky, and realise how strong the influence of philosophy, especially German, was on the young people of the times. Seems like another world.

Then one wonders: what does shape the minds of young people today? Obviously not philosophy of the Anglo-American kind. Marginally, continental, as I say. Literature? What, I wonder? And in any case the teaching of literature seems to have lost its way as well. Maybe it's Hollywood movies, computer games and rock music - God save us.

How long does a civilization last when it effectively lives on nothing?

DA