Foucault was an epistemological constructivist and historicist. Sauer rejected positivism, preferring particularist and historicist understandings of the world. Foucault is described by Mary Beth Mader as an epistemological constructivist and historicist. Mizner's buildings were typically dismissed by Modernist critics for their eclectic historicist aesthetic. In the post-war era, synagogue architecture abandoned historicist styles for modernism. The staircase is an example of the triumphalist and historicist architecture of Postwar Spain. Critics have applied feminist perspectives and historicist approaches to Hawthorne's depictions of women. Both of these ideas are treated as typical of the anti-naturalistic historicist approaches by Popper. Later followers, inspired by his works in eschatology and historicist theories, are called Joachimites. Almost all Protestant Reformers from the Reformation into the 19th century held historicist views. It is used principally by the historicist school of prophetic interpretation. Marx's historicist, anti-rational, and totalitarian outlook. Critics of Marx have understood his theory as historicist since its very genesis. The project has been criticized because of its cost and its historicist aesthetics. It owes its current look to a 19th-century remodelling in the historicist style.